The Tamesis
November 18, 2025
Manila— Malacañang on Monday pressed back on Vice Head of state Sara Duterte’s statements that Head of state Marcos encountered a “extensive dilemma of self-confidence” over the method he took care of a corruption examination right into a flooding control task.
Previously in the day, Duterte slammed the recurring federal government examination, which she claimed “appears to do not have instructions and willpower.”
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However royal residence press policeman Claire Castro claimed in a message to press reporters, “Those that are unclean need to not make believe to be tidy. Those that are not heroes need to not imitate heroes.”
She included that prior to asking for openness and responsibility, Duterte must initially clear up the doubtful use P612.5 million in private funds by the Workplace of the Vice Head Of State and the Division of Education And Learning (DepEd) she formerly headed. This does not consist of roughly P100 million in “ghost trainee” cases and P65 million in “ghost” food distributions.
Castro claimed: “Head of state Marcos Jr. was the one that introduced the examination right into these abnormalities, which the previous management never ever did in spite of a lot of ghost tasks as very early as 2020. Filipinos actually be entitled to far better, so they need to pick the appropriate leader to take workplace.”
Trying to find “clear responses”
Slamming the federal government’s supposed failing to explore inner corruption, Duterte remembered her resignation as education and learning assistant when she found out just how your house of Reps apparently controlled the nationwide budget plan, consisting of that of the Education and learning Division.
” We likewise look for clear responses on just how a spending plan that denied Filipinos of billions of pesos was accepted under his management. [Marcos’] Watch,” Duterte claimed, including that she “stands with countless Filipinos” mad regarding federal government corruption.
” We Filipinos be entitled to far better,” she emphasized.
Duterte’s declaration came as the Christian Church held a three-day objection rally in Luneta, the initial of which attracted an approximated 650,000 individuals on Sunday.
