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Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo/File

Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo

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Katrina Domingo

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/174030046144620220630-duterte-departure-honors-MNIB-60.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. <em>King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Malacañang on Sunday called former President Rodrigo Duterte a “one-man fake-news factory” after the former chief executive accused incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of “veering towards dictatorship.” </p><p>Duterte, during a rally in Cebu last week, warned the public that Marcos Jr. is planning to hold off the 2028 presidential elections so that he could stay in power just like his father and namesake Ferdinand Marcos Sr., who declared martial law in 1972. </p><p>“This hoax is another budol emerging from a one-man fake-news factory,” Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said in a statement. </p><div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/16/lawmaker-wants-nbi-to-probe-rodrigo-duterte-s-kill-senators-remark-1106"><strong>NBI urged to probe Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s &#x27;kill senators&#x27; remark </strong></a> </div><p>“We treat the former president’s baseless and ridiculous statements in the same way that Filipinos are dismissive of them: a tall tale from a man prone to lying and to inventing hoaxes,” he said. </p><p>The Marcos Jr. administration has “consistently demonstrated” that it will “stay the course in upholding the Constitution, in adhering to the rule of law, and in respecting the rights of the people,” Bersamin said. </p><p>“We will not backslide into the oppressive ways of the previous administration, when critics were jailed upon trumped-up charges and when kill orders were publicly issued with glee and obeyed blindly,” he said. </p><p>“It is the leader of that troubled past who is depicting us as veering toward a system where anyone can be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, as many had been on his mere say-so as a tyrant who did not respect the rights of the people,” he said. </p><p>The alliance between the Marcos and Duterte families crumbled since early 2024, when the former President accused Marcos Jr. of using illegal drugs after reports about the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) coordination with the Philippine government on investigating his war on drugs circulated. </p><div><a class="fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/09/21/22/findings-from-the-diaries-of-a-dictator"><strong>Findings from the diaries of a dictator </strong></a> </div><p>Duterte’s daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, eventually resigned as Marcos Jr.’s Education Secretary, citing her dissatisfaction with the President and his camp. </p><p>The House of Representatives — under the control of Marcos Jr.’s cousin and Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez — started looking into Vice President Duterte’s questionable spending of public funds, and filed an impeachment case against her earlier this year.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ECu-aRqK1K4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div> </div>

<p>Malacañang on Sunday called former President Rodrigo Duterte a “one-man fake-news factory” after the former chief executive accused incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of “veering towards dictatorship.”</p>

Malacañang on Sunday called former President Rodrigo Duterte a “one-man fake-news factory” after the former chief executive accused incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of “veering towards dictatorship.”

‘Another budol’: Malacañang calls Duterte ‘one-man fake-news factory’ over dictatorship claim vs Marcos Jr.

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‘Another budol’: Malacañang calls Duterte ‘one-man fake-news factory’ over dictatorship claim vs Marcos Jr.

Katrina Domingo,

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Published February 23, 2025 05:01 PM PHT

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