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Duterte slams opposition for 'raising so many issues' amid COVID-19 crisis

Duterte slams opposition for 'raising so many issues' amid COVID-19 crisis

Jamaine Punzalan,

ABS-CBN News

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Updated May 14, 2021 12:13 AM PHT

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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malacañang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse in Malacañang Park, Manila on May 13, 2021. Robinson Niñal, Presidential Photo

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday lashed out at the opposition for "raising so many issues," including the West Philippine Sea, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis.

Duterte alleged that the opposition has failed to suggest where to get additional funds for aid and help increase hospital beds while coronavirus infections "might go out of control and spread like a wildfire."

"Maghanap [sila] ng issue ng dagat," he said in a taped speech.

(They find issue in the sea instead.)

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"Ano bang problema nito, raising so many issues, nonsense and trivia, just because they want to be heard?"

(What is their problem, raising so many issues, nonsense and trivia, just because they want to be heard?)

Manila and Beijing's maritime dispute flared again in March, after some 200 Chinese ships swarmed the West Philippine Sea.

Beijing refuses to recognize a 2016 arbitral ruling that junked its "historical" claims to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, within which is the smaller West Philippine Sea.

Duterte has refused to press China to obey the ruling, as he pursued investments and loans from the economic superpower. Last week, he said the arbitral victory was a piece of "paper."

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