House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday said the public should believe President Rodrigo Duterte on the so-called “Red October” destabilization plot because he was “working from good information.”“Again, going from my experience as president, the President really has access to information that not all of us have access to,” Arroyo told reporters in an interview. ADVERTISEMENT“If the President believes that there is a threat, he is working from good information. The past leadership of Arroyo, who was president from January 2001 to June 2010, faced various threats which included widespread protests and several mutinies. READ: NDFP on ‘Red October’: Duterte, military ‘scaring themselves to death’ | No ouster move, say Trillanes, ‘plotters’“There is no conspiracy between the CPP-NPA-NDFP and LP for the purposes claimed by Duterte and the military. Duterte and the military are scaring themselves to death,” Fidel Agcaoili, chairperson of the NDFP peace panel, said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 26, 2018 03:33 UTC