iskup2015 posted: " Name names-PDU30 By Nidz Godino " Because if I run for vice president and then I go against someone who opposes the party like Pacquiao who keeps saying we are three times more corrupt.,"President Rodrigo Duterte dared Sen. Manny Pacquiao to na"
" Because if I run for vice president and then I go against someone who opposes the party like Pacquiao who keeps saying we are three times more corrupt.,"President Rodrigo Duterte dared Sen. Manny Pacquiao to name corrupt officials and agencies so he can do something about it.
Otherwise, President Duterte, chairman of the administration PDP-Laban party said, he will campaign against Pacquiao, who is the party's acting president.
Members of PDP-Laban have been urging President Duterte to run for vice president and to pick the presidential canddiate he will run alongside, an option that he said is "not at all a bad idea."
He said, he cannot work with someone who opposes him.
"So I am challenging him, name the office and I'll take care of it…within one week, I'll do something," the president said in a recording of a meeting of the pandemic task force.
"If you fail to do that, I will campaign against you because you are not doing your duty…do it because if not, I will just tell the people 'do not vote for Pacquiao because he is a liar'," President Duterte also said.
It is unclear where Pacquiao supposedly made the comments, but he is quoted making general statements about corruption in a December 2020 podcast interview.
The president earlier said Pacquiao should have come to him to raise his concerns over corruption in government.
" You didn't say anything all these years, you're always full of praises for me and now you're bringing up corruption," President Duterte, who often reads out names of government officials removed from their posts for graft and corruption, said.
Pacquiao is among possible candidates for president in the 2022 elections and the Palace has said that President Duterte may yet back him. Speaking at a forum earlier this month, presidential spokesman Herminio Roque said President Duterte is also considering supporting Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, former Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. or Manila Mayor Isko Moreno for president.
President Duterte earlier this month told Pacquiao to study West Philippine Sea issue more before making comments on the government's policy on the presence of Chinese vessels there. He said the senator "has a very shallow knowledge" of the issue.
Pacquiao respects President Duterte's opinion but that his comments on the West Philippine Sea "reflect the sentiment of majority of the Filipinos, that we should stand strong in protecting our sovereign rights while pursuing peaceful and diplomatic solution to the dispute."
President Duterte's comments indicate rising tension within the administration party, whose members held national assembly despite protests from Pacquiao, who said that meetings need endorsement of the party's president and chairman.
This is not the first time for rifts to emerge within PDP-Laban, minority party whose ranks grew after the 2016 elections. In 2014, then Vice President Jejomar Binay announced he was leaving PDP-Laban because of differences with party leaders. He would later run for president under the United Nationalist Alliance.
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