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DESPITE personal attacks by former president Rodrigo Duterte against him, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. clarified that he does not consider his predecessor as a political enemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t consider him a political enemy. It takes two to tango. I don\u2019t consider him a political enemy,\u201d President Marcos said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The President made the remarks during a media interview on the sidelines of the Philippines-US-Japan trilateral meeting in Washington, DC.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Marcos was asked to comment on Duterte\u2019s statements, saying they will become political enemies following the suspension of Davao del Norte Governor Edwin Jubahib.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Asked if he is willing to sit down with Duterte to discuss the supposed \u201cgentleman\u2019s agreement\u201d with China, President Marcos replied in the affirmative.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSend those documents to me. And then we\u2019ll sit down and discuss it,\u201d President Marcos said as he emphasized that he will surely review the documents so he can ask appropriate questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marcos said the documents should be directly sent to him, not to the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) or any government agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPag-aaralan ko, mag-uusap kami kung gusto n\u2019ya,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Marcos believes there was indeed a \u201csecret agreement\u201d that was forged during the administration of Duterte with China as far as the issue in the West Philippine Sea is concerned. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DESPITE personal attacks by former president Rodrigo Duterte against him, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. clarified that he does not consider his predecessor as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}