Malacañang refused to comment on the fresh accusations of exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison calling President Rodrigo Duterte and his son Paolo “biggest protector” of drug trade in the Philippines.
“As I said, he’s not worthy of comment,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a text message on Friday.
Roque, in a press briefing on Thursday called Sison “irrelevant” following the postponement of the peace talks initially scheduled in June.
“Joma Sison can say anything he wants, that’s his opinion; he’s even living ten thousand miles away. So I don’t see how he can even be relevant,” he said.
In a video interview with the members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap), Sison accused Duterte and Paolo protectors of the drug trade linking the presidential son to the drug smuggling.
Paolo called him a “pathological liar,” mocking his accusations as “insanely absurd as it was a repetition of, if not inspired by, an old gossip propagated and sowed around by an anti-Duterte senator who is also a rabid anti-communist.” /muf
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