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RD’s challenge to military ‘borders sedition’ — DOJ
By J.Lo
“I do not know where the president is getting his notion, we have strong and functioning republic…civil governance is for civilians, and military has no role whatsoever,” Justice Undersecretary Jesse Andres said Department of Justice announced it will investigate former President Rodrigo Duterte over his remarks about military intervention in governance of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Andres said Duterte’s remark is “bordering on sedition.”
“For him to invite military to have part in seeking remedy is bordering on sedition and is legally actionable,” he said.
This stemmed from early morning conference on Tuesday, where Duterte described Philippines as having “fractured governance” and accused Marcos of being drug addict.
“There is fractured governance in the Philippines today…nobody can correct Marcos, nobody can correct Romualdez…there is no urgent remedy… only military can correct it,” Duterte said at press conference.
The former president also asked military: “until when will you support addict president… I challenge the whole military because they’re supposed to be protectors of Constitution.”
However, the former president did not mention calling coup d’etat against Marcos.
Duterte has repeatedly accused Marcos of drug use, allegations that Marcos has consistently dismissed.
In response, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin condemned Duterte’s statements, saying that the former president has gone to “great and evil lengths” to see his daughter Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio ascend to presidency.
“No motive is more selfish than calling for sitting president to be overthrown so that your daughter can take over…and he will go to great and evil lengths, such as insulting our professional armed forces by asking them to betray their oath, for his plan to succeed, the former president should respect the Constitution, not disobey it…he should desist from being as irresponsible as he has become,” Bersamin said.
.Andres addressed Duterte’s common tactic of retracting contentious statements as jokes or hyperbole, saying that such remarks would be taken in their proper context.
“In legal contemplation, we have to place it in its proper context and ordinary meaning…we must also consider other contemporaneous acts ,what you are saying, what you are expressing, and what you are doing,” he said.
Andres also highlighted gravity of Sara Duterte’s admission of hiring someone to target the president, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and House Speaker Martin Romualdez, emphasizing that it constitutes direct threat rather than conditional one.
He stressed that such statement, coming from highly influential figure, is matter of national security, particularly as it involves country’s elected leader.
“We will not take this lightly and we will address this very seriously,” Andres said.
The former president’s press conference was held few days after Sara Duterte’s virtual press conference, where she threatened to kill Marcoses if she were killed.
This prompted National Bureau of Investigation to issue subpoena against the vice president, asking her to shed light on the incident.
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