Press Release
September 21, 2018

DESTABILIZER-IN-CHIEF SHOULD STOP USING PEOPLE'S TRAGEDIES TO JUSTIFY INCOMPETENCE, REPUGNANCE FOR DEMOCRACY

*Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros's response to Malacanang's statement

President Rodrigo Duterte should stop using the people's tragedies to justify his repugnance for democracy and idolatry of the Marcoses and hide his government's gross incompetence. It is extremely appalling and insulting.

How could Malacanang cite the tragedies that befell our kababayan in Northern Luzon due to supertyphoon Ompong to call for a moratorium on so-called excessive politicking as a response to valid criticisms, when the President himself called the victims "bobo" and even used his Ompong briefing to push his senatorial bets? Is that how the President promotes stability and solidarity in times of calamities? Hanggang sa panahon ba naman ng kalamidad, destabilizer pa rin ang Pangulo?

Undeniably, President Duterte is the real destabilizer. He has destabilized our country's democracy, economy, peace and institutions of governance.

In times of crisis, the people need a reliable leader, not a senseless destabilizer. The people deserve a real commander-in-chief, not a destabilizer-in-chief.

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