VP Leni claims that Duterte was prompted to oust her from the Cabinet because of the false information fed to him
TRUE OF FALSE – Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo claims that President Rodrigo Duterte was fed with false information and upon with extreme confidence on the informant, the Chief Executive barred her from attending Cabinet meetings.
In an interview on January 3, Tuesday, VP Leni said that the reports that she joined anti-Duterte protest rallies are false because she never walked in the streets with the protesters calling for the stepping down of the President, including those against the burial of the late former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).
Robredo admits her opposition to the Marcos burial but denies joining any protest of the people who have the same sentiments.
Leni said that even the members of the press know that she did not join any rally and despite her being very vocal in opposing the Marcos burial, she reiterated that she did not join the protests “in deference to the President because I was a member of the Cabinet”.
Vice President Robredo said that she is saddened that President Duterte immediately believed the false reports that were fed to him.
She said that the administration could verify the veracity of the reports received by the Office of the President given that it supervises all the intelligence agencies, before the President would believe the information.
Shortly following the protests against the Marcos burial at the LNMB, Robredo received a text message from the Malacañang Palace to stop attending the Cabinet meetings, prompting her to resign as the chairman of the Housing and Urband Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).
According to Vice President Leni, she had tried to set an appointment for a meeting with the President after she was barred from attending Cabinet meetings but she was not accomodated by the Palace.
In an exclusive interview with the CNN recently, President Duterte said that he kicked Robredo out of his Cabinet because he found it “awkward” for him and Leni to face each other at the Cabinet meeting a day after she joined protests calling for his ouster.
He said the “Yellows”, referring to the color of the political opposition Liberal Party to which VP Leni belongs, are the one who want him out of Presidency.
He reiterated that the Liberals are “sore losers” who cannot accept that they have been defeated in the last election.
