Former President Rodrigo Duterte  on November 13, 2024 during the Quad-Comm hearing on the extrajudicial killings, addressing alleged human rights violations from his administration’s war on drugs. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

Quad-Comm Hearing

Katrina Domingo

ABS-CBN News

<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/173261771598220241028-senate hearing-duterte-MT-8.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Former President Rodrigo Duterte takes his oath before the start of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on extrajudicial killings and alleged human rights violations in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Former President Rodrigo Duterte takes his oath before the start of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on extrajudicial killings and alleged human rights violations in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. <em>Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday said it would look into former President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent invitation for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to help “correct” the Philippines’ “fractured government,” underscoring that the statement is “bordering on sedition.”</p><p>The former President earlier urged the military to help remedy irregularities in the government that stemmed from an alleged &quot;attempt&quot; to change the constitution.</p><p>“There is no such thing as a fractured governance… The military has no role whatsoever in civil governance except to protect the people,” Justice Undersecretary Jesse Andres told reporters, underscoring that “no remedy that can possibly come from the military because our courts are functioning.”</p><p>“For him to invite the military to have a part in seeking remedy is bordering on sedition and is legally actionable,” he said.</p><p>“Yung mga pananalita ng dating Pangulong Duterte ay iimbestigahan din natin kasabay noong mga ibang nangyayari ngayong panahon,” he added.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/26/no-need-for-loyalty-check-amid-marcos-duterte-rift-afp-1342">READ: No need for loyalty check amid Marcos-Duterte rift -- AFP</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/25/brawner-reminds-soldiers-to-remain-loyal-to-constitution-amid-marcos-duterte-rift-1311">READ: Brawner reminds soldiers to remain loyal to Constitution amid Marcos-Duterte rift</a></div><p>The DOJ “will have to look at every angle” and see if the former President’s statements and Vice President Sara Duterte’s kill plot against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. are “part and parcel of a bigger plan for destabilization,” Andres said.</p><p>“Lahat ng pananalita na mga binitawan ay parang double meaning. Hindi natin malaman kung ito ay metaphorical, hyperbole ngunit naguudyok po ng pag-iisip ng mga tao,” he said.</p><p>“In legal contemplation, we have to put it in its proper context and ordinary meaning, and we have to take it in consideration of other contemporaneous acts,” he said.</p><p>“There is no such thing as a conditional threat. Once you issue a threat, it is a threat,” he added.</p><p>Despite the Vice President’s insistence that her words over the weekend were “taken out of its logical context,” the DOJ official stood firm that the second-in-command’s pronouncements quality as a national security concern.</p><p>“It is a matter of national security because it is coming from a very influential person: the vice president, and the subject of the act is the president himself,” Andres said.</p><p>“We will not take this lightly and we will address this very seriously,” he said.</p><p>The NBI has served Duterte a subpoena on November 26, and required the Vice President to present herself before the agency to explain why she issued a kill threat against the chief executive.</p><p>On Monday, Marcos Jr. said that he would hit back against the Vice President’s pronouncements with the full force of the law.</p><div><a class="fr-strong fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/26/sara-duterte-faces-subpoena-over-kill-plot-vs-marcos-vp-says-threat-a-plan-without-flesh-1230">READ: Sara Duterte faces subpoena over kill plot vs Marcos</a></div><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/h8gaE4azqEo?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>The DOJ said it would look into former President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent invitation for the AFP to help “correct” the Philippines’ “fractured government,” underscoring that the statement is “bordering on sedition.”</p>

The DOJ said it would look into former President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent invitation for the AFP to help “correct” the Philippines’ “fractured government,” underscoring that the statement is “bordering on sedition.”

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‘Bordering on sedition’: DOJ to probe Rodrigo Duterte’s invitation for AFP to ‘correct fractured gov’t’

‘Bordering on sedition’: DOJ to probe Rodrigo Duterte’s invitation for AFP to ‘correct fractured gov’t’

Katrina Domingo,

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Published Nov 26, 2024 06:43 PM PHT

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