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I. INTRODUCTION: COURTESY CALLS “Why would you approach the president? What is the message that you want to make especially if we look at the possibility that you will be aspiring for a higher position?” BY CARMELA FONBUENA April 30, 2021 | 11:30:00 PM
Rodrigo Duterte had been installed president for a little over a month when he received justices of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan on Aug. 4, 2016 in “Panacañang,” the presidential guest house in Davao City which has served as the Malacañang of the South.
A silent video the government released on social media showed him talking in a jovial mood. The video then cut to Samuel Martires, the justice who wrote the decision dismissing a graft case against Duterte in 2011 and was seated across the dining table from him, flashing a big smile, seemingly in reaction to what Duterte just said.