If President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that his only sin was extrajudicial killings was, according to his spokespersons, just a joke, then it’s not funny. Rarity“It seems they are the only presidential spokespersons in the world who keep on saying that we should not take the President seriously,” he added. Statements of the country’s leaders must always be taken seriously, he said. “The President is not an ordinary senator or citizen, he is the leader of 105 million Filipinos,” Drilon said. “It is wrong for the President’s spokesperson to say that we should not believe the President because he was just joking,” he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 29, 2018 21:45 UTC