super game Marcos ditches talk on Duterte, focuses on storm victims

 Marcos ditches discussion on Duterte

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr.   (Official Facebook page of PCO)

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. on Monday refused to talk about former president Rodrigo Duterte during an aid distribution event in Batangas on Monday, and stressed that he wanted to focus on the victims of the recent storm in the province.

In an ambush interview after the turnover of aid to residents devastated by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine in the municipality of Laurel, a member of the media was about to ask the President about Dutrrte.

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Marcos, however, quickly cut the reporter off and said, “I don’t wanna talk about that; I need to talk about what’s happening here.”

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Duterte appeared in a Congressional inquiry into his administration’s bloody drug war for the first time last October 28.

In the hearing, he offered no apologies or excuses for his actions in his widely criticized bloody war on drugs.

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He also confessed to maintaining a “death squad” that had carried out his orders to execute criminals when he was mayor of Davao City.

Meanwhile, in a separate ambush interview last November 1, Marcos was also mum about the status of his relationship with Vice President Sara Duterte.

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