MANILA, Philippines—Detained opposition Sen. Leila De Lima on Wednesday (Dec. 2) described President Rodrigo Duterte’s branding of the leftwing Makabayan bloc of legislators as a “diversionary tactic” to distract attention away from his administration’s shortcomings on COVID-19 response.
In a dispatch from her cell in Camp Crame, the Philippine National Police headquarters in Quezon City, De Lima said Duterte’s rant against critics were but “desperate attempts at damage control.”
“It’s supposed to be a President’s weekly report on the COVID-19 situation but what we’ve been hearing since Day 1 are desperate attempts at damage control,” said De Lima. “In his latest address to the n…
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