Malaysia's Mahathir: Duterte 'has right to decide' on withdrawal from ICCMANILA, Philippines —Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said President Rodrigo Duterte has the right to withdraw the Philippines’ ratification of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. So we need to take actions against criminals wherever they may be and that’s why we’re member of that organization,” Mahathir said. Withdrawal questioned at SCLast August, the Supreme Court held oral arguments on the petitions challenging the Duterte administration’s unilateral pullout from the Rome Statute. ‘Democracy under threat everywhere’Asked if democracy is under threat in the Philippines, the Malaysian prime minister responded that democracies everywhere are backsliding. I think by and that the Southeast Asia including the Philippines have been able to sustain a democracy in almost all the different interpretations that you may [have] about democracy,” Mahathir said.

Source: Philippine Star March 07, 2019 03:53 UTC