
(Dahil) sa palpak na responde ay tumagal ang ating pagkakulong dito sa usapin ng COVID-19.

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To illustrate the worsening poverty situation, she cited public transportation drivers begging in the streets, millions of workers losing their jobs and small businesses closing shops. Under Duterte, self-reported poverty is at 49%. Taguiwalo cited that the poverty incidence during the Marcos years rose to almost 49%.


Not only that, but he even admitted that with military officials and police generals in certain positions, these police generals will not debate with him whatsoever and will just follow orders,” he added. “He wants to rule by fear by having these military officials and police generals in power. He noted that both Duterte and Marcos appointed several retired military and police generals to Cabinet positions. “ Para sa akin, hindi po sila magkaiba,” said lawyer Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, a former congressman. Two sides of the same coin?Ī panel of the martial law survivors drew parallelisms between the tactics of Duterte and the late Marcos, who both seemed to draw their brand of governance from a “playbook of fear.” Christopher “Bong” Go as his presidential running mate.ĬARMMA, which initially stood for Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses to Malacanang, is a coalition established in February 2016 to thwart bid of the younger Marcos that year to become vice president.Įarlier, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who lost in the 2016 vice presidential race, floated the possibility of running with Duterte’s daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, should she decide to do so in next year’s polls. It also came three days after Duterte accepted the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) nomination for him to run as vice president with Sen. The press conference marked the 49th year since Marcos declared martial law in1972. But in the past five years, the crimes and abuses were back in different forms under the leadership of President Duterte, the widespread human rights violations, corruption, plunder, militarism, and the return of the cronies.) (We thought … we’ve been through the nightmare and darkness of martial law. Pero nitong nakaraang liman taon, bumalik ang iba’t-ibang anyo sa pamumuno ni President Duterte ang malagim na mga krimen at kasalanan, ang malawak na human rights violations, ang corruption, plunder, ang paghahari ng militar, at ito ngayon, ang panumbalik ng mga cronies,” she added.

“ Akala natin … nalagpasan na natin ang bangungot at dilim ng batas militar. Judy Taguiwalo, Duterte’s first Social Welfare secretary and a convenor of CARMMA, said the present administration’s ineptitude has prolonged the struggle of the Filipinos against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), worsened by widespread corruption and the return of cronyism. In an online press conference dubbed #NoDuterteMarcos2022, victims of human rights abuses belonging to a group called Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) said another Duterte or Marcos, or both, in the top positions in the government would only worsen poverty, corruption and repression in the country. Describing President Rodrigo Duterte as “worse than Marcos,” survivors of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial law on Saturday urged voters to reject the Dutertes and Marcoses seeking election in May 2022.
