“The Filipino people should reject all those identified with dictatorship and authoritarianism, reject all those responsible for or who abet extrajudicial killings and whose mantra is ‘kill, kill, kill,’ and all those who violate human rights.”
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 25) For Vice President Leni Robredo, the opposition should field only one presidential candidate in next year s elections. I believe that there should only be one opposition candidate in the 2022 elections, Robredo said in a forum on Monday when asked about the presidential polls. The reason why I believe that is that, we have to accept that the President is, again, a very popular president, she pointed out. And to have many different candidates running in the elections will only ensure another six years of victory of the same kind of governance that the last five years [have] given us.
Philippines rejects 3-month Chinese fishing ban
May 19, 2021 | 9:19 pm
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THE PHILIPPINES on Tuesday rejected China’s fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea and asked it to stop violating the Southeast Asian nation’s sovereignty.
In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said China’s three-month fishing moratorium that started on May 1 covers areas over which the Philippines controls.
“These waters include areas over which the Philippines exercises sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction,” the agency said.
“The Philippines strongly urges China to desist from any action and activity that infringes on Philippine sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction, in contravention of international law,” it added.
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Published May 18, 2021, 12:03 AM
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 17, said that China’s “might makes it right” on the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) as he conceded that the Philippines cannot compete because it is not equal to the Asian giant.
President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his “Talk to the People” on May 17, 2021. (RTVM Screenshot)
“I was frank enough in the early days and I said that might makes it right. And we are not unfortunately on the side of might, so we can’t do anything because we can’t be in parity, in force,” the President said during his televised public address on Monday night.