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Duterte hits back at critics amid COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Ano ang nagawa ninyo sa bayan?’

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/02/02/duterte-rtr-020217.jpg"/></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE) </strong>- President Rodrigo Duterte has fired back at the critics of his administration’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.</p><p>“Ito lang ang tanong ko.... Ano ang nagawa ninyo para sa bayan? ’Yan lang,” he said in a public address broadcast late Thursday night.</p><p>“Kayo, what have you done for the country except to talk and criticize and talk?”</p><p>The President likened his critics to &quot;snakes&quot;.</p><p>“Sa Mindanao maraming ahas, pero hindi ko alam na karamihan cobra lumipat na dito,” Duterte said.</p><p>“Kita mo nagdadaldal. ’Yan, mga kobra. Walang ginawa kundi maghintay, magkagat, just to be able to open his or her mouth, para sabihin alam lahat.”</p><p>In his address that lasted 50 minutes, Duterte instead urged those who criticized him to follow the government’s guidelines against COVID-19.</p><p>“Itong mga nagbabatikos naman. There will always be a time for everything and I hope the next magsabi ako, maniwala kayo. Kasi po ako magsabi walang politika, hindi na po ako makatakbo,” he said.</p><p>“For so many years, ilang taon na silang nandiyan. Puro posturing, puro porma, pa pretty boy, marami ’yan.</p><p>“Huwag kayong makinig diyan. Dito kayo makinig sa gobyerno. Tutal ako ang nagdadala. I’m telling you we’re doing everything.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Four Trillion ang budget mo, tapos hahanapan mo ako ng ambag? Batukan kaya kita.</p>— Sonny Trillanes IV (@TrillanesSonny) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrillanesSonny/status/1250800699291533313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, one of Duterte&#x27;s fiercest critics, lashed out on Thursday night.</p><p>&quot;Four trillion ang budget mo, tapos hahanapan mo ako ng ambag? Batukan kaya kita,&quot; he wrote on Twitter.</p><p>This year&#x27;s spending plan is 9 percent higher than the P3.76 trillion budget for 2019.</p><p>To date, the novel coronavirus has infected 5,660 persons in the country, the highest among Southeast Asian countries as of Thursday.<br/><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></p><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS/videos/262686441798654/" data-width="auto"> </div><div> </div>

<p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE) </strong>- President Rodrigo Duterte has fired back at the critics of his administration’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.</p>

MANILA (UPDATE) - President Rodrigo Duterte has fired back at the critics of his administration’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.