Team ‘Utang na Loob’ vs Team ‘Batas’? Palace dismisses Baste criticism on Duterte arrest

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Malacañang downplays Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte’s criticism of  Ferdinand Marcos Jr on the arrest of his father, former president Rodrigo Duterte.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/malacanang-response-baste-criticism-rodrigo-duterte-icc-arrest/

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00:00Malacanang downplaced Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte's criticism of Ferdinand Marx Jr.

00:06on the arrest of his father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.

00:09In a press briefing on Monday, March 17, Cala's Undersecretary Claire Castro reacts to the

00:14Davao mayor's tirades.

00:16Baste had cursed the president for turning over his father to the Interpol, which was

00:20serving a warrant from the International Criminal Court.

00:23He also invoked utang na loob, or a debt of gratitude to Duterte, who had allowed the

00:27hero's burial of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.

00:31In response, Castro said,

00:32"...the President also thanked former President Duterte in 2016, but gratitude should not

00:37be an excuse to derail or betray the enforcement of the law and justice."

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