Officials to keep going to Senate probe despite Duterte snub order: Palace
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte's aides will keep attending a Senate probe into government's pandemic deals, contrary to his order to ignore the proceedings, his spokesman said on Monday.
But he also noted the Commission on Audit has clarified it did not say there was overpricing in government's transactions. "Iyong constitutional crisis, ang punto nga ni Presidente after 21 hearings, ano pa ba ang gusto ninyo? After 21 hearings, malinaw na kung ipagpapatuloy ‘yan, pulitika na po ang dahilan – not in aid of legislation, in aid of elections," Roque said.
"It is catastrophic for our country that the President is willing to provoke a Constitutional crisis to protect these corrupt people who have lined their pockets with our people's money and now go around in ostentatious displays of ill-gotten wealth, driving around in multimillion-peso luxury cars and living in mansions while our people continue to suffer, starve and die," he said.
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