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Palace rules out revolutionary gov’t, says 2022 polls will push through


President Rodrigo Duterte won’t be supporting calls for a revolutionary government and the 2022 polls will proceed, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Tuesday.

Roque’s comments came following the rally staged by the President’s supporters from the Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for the President Movement late February. The group called for a revolutionary government.

“The President is de jure constitutional government. He does not need a revolutionary government,” Roque said in a Palace briefing.

“Elections will be held as scheduled in 2022, there will be a new president come June 30, 2022,” he added.

President Duterte’s term ends on June 30, 2022, but he has party-mates in PDP-Laban who are pushing for a possible vice presidential bid in the 2022 polls.

But the President has recently called his long time aide and Senator Bong Go as “President” and even disclosed that Go wants to become Chief Executive.

Go said he is not interested, but later clarified that he could change his mind if President Duterte agrees to be vice president. — Llanesca T. Panti/RSJ, GMA News

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