Baste Duterte calls for President Marcos resignation

MANILA, Philippines — In a sign of a deepening rift, the youngest son of former president Rodrigo Duterte yesterday called for the resignation of President Marcos.

“Mr. President, if you do not have love and aspirations for your country, resign,” Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte said in a speech at the Hakbang ug Maisug Leaders Forum in Davao City.

The mayor also accused the President of being lazy and lacking compassion.

“All of these things he is causing are oppressing the people. He is making politics his first priority instead of opening up new opportunities especially for the lower classes to improve the lives of Filipinos,” Duterte lamented.

The mayor lambasted the President for his alleged inaction on criminality.

According to Duterte, drugs and other crimes ballooned after his father stepped down as president.

“Of course they were gone for six years. They would want to recoup their losses now,” he said.

The gains made in eradicating the New People’s Army are also being threatened, Duterte said.

“The problem is they were not there up in the mountains. They did not experience it. Now, because they have a grievance with my sister (Vice President Sara Duterte), they are cozying with the left,” he said.

Duterte also blames the President for all the woes the country is facing.

“You are the president, you could have done something about it,” he said, accusing the President of sleeping instead of doing his job.

At the leaders’ forum, the mayor also likened the people’s initiative signature campaign to what was done in the 1960s that allowed Marcos Sr. to stay in power for 20 years.

After he said his piece, the mayor jested that he might have to flee the country to preserve his life after all the accusations he let out.

Supporters of President Marcos and his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte each gathered for rival rallies yesterday, as a battle over the country’s Constitution highlighted a deepening rift between the clans.

As supporters of Marcos and his predecessor Duterte each gathered for rival rallies yesterday, the battle over the country’s Constitution highlighted a deepening rift between the clans.

The Hakbang ug Maisug is a gathering of leaders who supported