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Duterte to De Lima: Take a break, you’ll have a nervous breakdown


President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday urged Senator Leila de Lima to take a break, following her very emotional outburst during a press conference earlier in the day.

"I think she's breaking down," Duterte said in a press conference at the Ninoy Aquino Internationanl Airport before departing for Vietnam for a two-day official visit.

Duterte said he fears De Lima, who is being linked to the illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison, "will have a nervous breakdown" if she continues "yakking."

"I'm not trying to derogate her, she’s a lawyer, she’s bright, I would suggest that she takes days off," Duterte said.

At her press conference, De Lima, a former Justice secretary, challenged Duterte to arrest her, even as she denied benefiting from drug transactions inside the national penitentiary. 
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Duterte and De Lima have been at odds with each other ever since De Lima, during her term as chair of the Commission on Human Rights, probed the alleged extrajudicial killings in Davao City under Duterte.

Duterte, known for his strong anti-crime stance, was Davao City mayor for many years before getting elected president in the May 2016 elections.

Duterte, in his press conference, said De Lima, despite holding top-level positions in the government, had failed to file cases against him. 

“Look, she was the chairperson of the [Commission on] Human Rights for many years. She was the Secretary of Justice for many years. She has been a senator for a time now. In all of these events in her life, she talked about me harping on EJK. And yet to this date, no cases were filed," he said.

In an earlier press conference at the same airport, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II also told De Lima not to be hysterical and just answer the allegations against her.

De Lima led a Senate investigation on the extrajudicial killings amid Duterte's war on drugs. The House of Representatives, on the other hand, started a probe on the proliferation of drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison, implicating De Lima.—KG/KBK, GMA News

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