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to the home in a long overdue general election math products and political unrest around the country lead to an earlier than mandate a new election laws being put in place, can the government now deliver on a promise paid an open process. second, covering an idea. outspoken and controversial rigor. the 30 says that he's retiring from politics. the philippine president leaves a legacy marked by a harsh crack down on drugs. but how has his trial in office shaped politics and will his successor keep his policies? this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan. philippine president can only serve a single 6 year term in office, and that's created

a bit of an obstacle for president rodrigo to 30 who many had speculated was hoping to run for the vice presidency. but he's just announced that he's retiring from politics altogether. a recent poll had suggested that many filipinos disapproved of his reported bid for the vice presidency. now there are reports that his daughter sala, to take appeal, is running for president. she's expected to join her father's former aid sen, bongo who's running for vice president, president to dirty, endorsed sen bongos candidacy. when he announced his retirement on saturday. oh, i said, no sentimental de filippino is that i am not really bad and it would be emotionally healed, ignited william silicon, the law legal situation,

or president that he came to power in 2016, promising to reduce crime. but his violent campaign against drugs as spart, controversy at home and abroad. rights groups accused his forces of carrying out extrajudicial killings and murdering suspects. they estimate the milly, 30000 people have been killed into turret a so called war on drugs. but government figures put that number at no more than 6000. while the international criminal court has opened an investigation for possible crimes against humanity. ah, well, let's bring in our guests, all of them. joining us set from the philippines to day from bonilla are joined by a chris elliot as a journalist and author in marchina. danilo are our professor of journalism at the university of the philippines and also in manila, richard to he darian an academic and author of the rise of de tirty, a populous revolt against elite democracy, a warm welcome to you all chris,

other. let's start with you. so de today's got to retire from politics. ah, but we've heard that before. should we believe him this time? i would say by quick answer would be no. but maybe there is a slight to do it. i mean, he's been known to lie to have something up please. so the best thing to do is to just wait and see. but it's become like, you know, a running drama in the political scene because electrons are coming up. and, and it kind of diverts the very important topic of today, like the been that make the corruption that's been going on related to the pandemic . so that's, that's the only thing that, that basically gets in the way danilo will deter, to his vision of retirement. look like if his daughter wins the presidency, can we expect him to be in the background?

the wizard of oz. like still pulling the strings most definitely he can still be part of that new site and he was still maintain some influence, not just in politics, but in various aspects of social media. so we expect that to still be having a prominent role. and especially the said that everything despite uncertain, this is not the 1st time that he said that he spent, i eating about the sick and it makes but you know, something new comes along for now. he says that he said i, but in my opinion that there will come and that he will still be very influential. whether or not i make no mistake about it. the deadline for the fighting and the, this is in the philippines. he's on the 8th, but people are watching what will happen on november 15, where that, that 9 or we've been all was in such chunks will happen. so the waiting period is quite long. it's not just october, it's november 15, and most probably may even be may 9 where there are and i once asked for last we

need some speaking shots, although there are some restrictions on election day. richard or do you agree with that the, to perhaps we, we shouldn't believe to touch a what he says he's going to retire just yet. but if he, if he wants to stay in politics, what would his motivations be for doing so? i mean, one thing that we have learned about populace is not to take them necessarily literally, but to take them seriously. and the problem present. the 3rd is that sometimes you don't think you should also take him literally at all or even seriously at all. but i think in this case, there are reasons to believe that president authority, sensing that the tide is turning and shoot them against him. or if you look at it in mental east, we're reaching a kind of a peak to tessa, or he's approval rating sov software to double digit decline since last year. yes, it's still popular by western standards perhaps, but it's on a downward trajectory or in the latest survey on the vice presidential candidates,

he's 11 points behind against someone who was way behind him just few months ago. so or in terms of his competitiveness, a heading into a vice presidential race to somehow hob a back door into the millennium palace. that's also not looking very good for him. and by the latest survey came out were by 60 percent of filipinos or post him. i'll post his plan to run as a vice president because that could potentially give him a situation or, but he could still become the president and violet, the spirit, and even the letter of the constitution. in fact, even he's in his home island of mean the now more than 50 person said they don't want him to run as a vice president. so maybe he's reading the writing on the wall. of course, the theory to being deter, they'll try to always pull off some maneuver at the 11th hour or passed it. but i think he's beginning to sense that perhaps it's better if he has these anointed successors. ron at the number 2 and number one level and the number 2 he up. he's 1st preference really for presidency, was his long time 8 and protege, senator christopher bungle but his numbers are not good. so he's encouraging that

guy to run for vice presidency. and now saying, my daughter, you should run for the presidency while, sorry, saying maybe i want to run for mayor. so did these dramas been going on for a while, but the fax is an on the ground tide, is she ok? it's present to 30, we're and he's definitely sensing that richard, you say the child is turning. if i mean, if the constitution, let's just assume for them over the constitution allowed a title run for a 2nd term. what he of one on. well, the reality is, at present, it's very, the still has a lot of advantage on his side, right? i mean, this is a guy who has a lot of emergency powers because of the pandemic. a yes, tremendous amount of access to state resources. there have been corruption scandals right and left and critics are saying maybe that has a lot to do with you know, money that has to go to elections. so he has a lot of advantages i think present to terry that if he could have, i mean he would have push for changing the constitution. but the fact that he was not able to to change, change the constitution a lot of even se alice were against him. and now. so if his former allies like sen,

money back, yo, is turning against him and positioning himself as a crusader against her. often, i mean, he may be popular, but things can turn against him. let's not forget. i think the feudal president, the 3rd there is that the thing that he did his predecessor present aquino could happen to him present aquino, delay present, you know, had a 5060 percent approval rating. heading into the elections. the 3rd as a 6070 percent approval rating. but things can turn, people are fecal enders, a lot of anger and frustration with the mismanagement of the call it night and pandemic, and not even his allies are turning against him. so even if he had a, you know, the did the right to run for reelection was, is barred by our constitution. things would not look as well for him. and i think as forcefully minister constrained perhaps, as they sense the, they did, they did the transfer change there being more expressive about her disapproval of the president and a climate of theories withering away. what we'll get into what sort of president he's been in just a few moments, but criselda, 1st of all, just just one more question on the tour to his motivations for perhaps staying in

the game. either is vice president or somewhere in the background is that perhaps to ensure that he remains out of reach of the international criminal court? yeah, that's exactly one reason that he might want to stay in power or at least have an influence of where someone. so there is a possibility that if he wants his daughter run a precedent and we think that she might man, because for her all her ratings are quite right on that with his sure his safety i out of jail basically on. so that's one thing. and if not, is maybe an ally like his right hand man senator was richard mentioned earlier on or if not him another ally, but that's the thing which is don't know how far he would go to to really keep his, you know, is his hands on, on the political play that, you know, the situation with the i c, c could be difficult for him in the sense that well,

the cases are running their more there. it's very likely that the investing, the more people testify against him. so you know it's, it's, it's from, it's one of the main reason that he might want to say let's, let's go to his legacy. danilo, has he been good for the country? he said when he came into office that he'd improve the lives of the poor through land reform through free education, healthcare, half people, prostate prospered on book to 30 of their lives, improved. the question i received was the government that things would have been going well as a democrat them, but i believe i would show that even prior to that. and then there is economic hardship among many people. one document is a shiny still happening, and they're nice job insecurity. b, i labor migration was still up on time high prior to that me and things, you know, went on a downturn when lockdown square. he all starting in march 2020. and the government

cannot deny the fact that they are focus more on i said that i make any sense that would run through the people's interests like red bagging, right. focusing on bill bill. bill programs, infrastructure development, or, or view the vacation programs like the controversial on the might beach along with the are. so this things are l. l signs that the government really doesn't care much about this thing, but like the people they go for robot gotten back for vacation, campaigns that would look good or if there's a fix in the media, but it's actually, it actually doesn't that it down in terms of improving the lights and light bill. so if we're talking about with the legacy, it's a legacy of the links of murders offer depression of the media and the violation of b c rights. and that would like to explain why we can do something like a balancing. we're in, we, we,

nobody the good and we but i to annual but i also that bad because when you get down to it, killings are killings and no amount off, you know, beautification campaigns. and then i the fact that people have di, activists and journalists have been, i study pain storage, shorted and killed most, especially the activists. so these are signs of the items that we need. the m one chair of the unit, the and that ain't you have any there are certain openings and opportunities provide that by them eat 20 percent or electrons. but the problem in the field, in spanish, hispanic, and structural and a bigger farm also show change would be necessary to ensure that if you will not prosper again. and richard, average g d, p growth in the philippines in the to total years is 3.4 percent. that's not bad. the lowest, 5 year average since the early 19 ninety's. it is, though,

to what extent is the pandemic been used as an excuse for the failure of to thirty's economic policies? the economy was slowing consistently before the pandemic, but it's now suffered 5 consecutive quarters of g d p decline. yeah, i mean, of course, that's that and then is right, that's the kind of narrative that the goring wants to run that, you know, we were in a pyre days. and then this pandemic happened. but the pandemic is really exposed, the incompetence of this administration. it has really exposed the performative ness of president. the 3rd is very good in terms of performing as the kind of a supposed concrete and leader. but when crisis happens, we see that, you know, the paucity of the but the reality is that even before depend damage the philippines, economic growth was on a downward trajectory. was slowing down for their investments was among the lowest, if not the lowest in the region. the philippines was on there performing on many fronts, to 3rd, to promise that he could bring in billions of dollars of investments from china.

now that he's picking a fight with the americans and being nice of the chinese, none of that came not a single big ticket infrastructure project by the chinese really kicked off under president that there to so things were not really looking good for him. all you know, heading into depend amick years he, they try to use the pandemic to consolidate power and create an excuse. but i think a lot of feet of been as are realizing, been why the philippines is doing worse, even in the region, even compared to a similar countries in the region, thailand, vietnam militia, indonesia, the philippines is not doing well. it has been copied 19 hub on it of for quite some time it has, it has had suffered one of the deepest recessions on earth. next, countries like india, close to 10 percent. so, you know, there's a lot, i mean, they can play this game of saying this is not our fault or not, but they're now very vulnerable to solve even their extra former allies going against me. for some one i didn't mention, or demarcus unit of the scion of the former dictatorship freedom. and marcus junior wants to also run as a presidency and, and the serial,

increasing the training as rivals also to present the 3rd. so that's why i'm saying you may be popular, you may have a lot of advantages, but there lot of vulnerabilities, an x r laced all position, some new century. some new populace are a, can't have a lot of vulnerabilities into their destruct records that they can really tweak against him. i think he's short. if you look at his legacy it, it's, and concrete, right? so in fairness, there has been lot of rows and infrastructure in the rural perry fil a region of the country, all the, no beek to get infrastructure projects, but a lot of development happened really in the peripheries of the country over the past 5 years. thanks to the fact that the dirt this breed assessor saved a lot of money. so when he took power in 2016, he was in a very, very good position. and now he's going to leave as far more unstable, impoverished country than what he could of are, you know, be quite that are to his successor are in comparison to the kinds of good conditions macroeconomic and political conditions that he, that he inherited from the very, to for me that he attacked throughout the years as supposedly incompetent in core up and so on is offered criselda. he said he tackle the oligarchs as he called them

. and he's been accused of settling political scores in of gagging the media while going about that he said that he tackled drugs within his 1st 6 months. i didn't hit that target. but as we heard at the beginning of the program rights group, say that 30000 people have died in the war on drugs or state sponsored murder. as some will describe it. do you think that the war on drugs will be his? is legacy? well, a negative one, definitely. i mean, what he did in the southern city of the bo, where he was mayor for 20 years, was something that he wanted to replicate for the entire country. and that didn't work. i mean, the situation and of all, it's not that all the same in the rest of the rest of the country. so i, yeah, that is legacy, but it's, it's, it's a bad one. it's something that people will remember for, for years to come. and on that, the thing there is,

the sad thing that's happening now is that there doesn't seem to be a move and an effort to really hold him accountable to that on the senate. didn't stop him really, from withdrawing from the i. c. c. and the supreme court did the same thing, the supreme court basically, you know, it's has all from that issue. so it's now at the i c c, depending on the next president, whoever that will be. to see that this cases will prosper against him. danilo, what are the chances that of his daughter sorrow succeeding him utterly explain her popularity in the opinion polls? how similar are her politics to her dad's what's her record is mer of double ok, that's a good question. i mean, within the realm of possibility of the actual me, the residency is very much possible. even if i showed up the final her certificate down to the c s. may yard. now go see. now one thing about opinion was during the

and then me is that the on are very actually there very and even one high ranking official, a survey for in the philippines mentioned that the field interview where sense someone say you'd be whenever people would. but i used to be, you know, responsive and call that the reservation that there be then. so naturally there is some steel by yes or bad ministration or certain remarks that would be favorable for those in power for the simple reason that. 6 around 70 to 80 percent of the population would be dependent on the back or if you know in english, so they are dependent on government grants, no matter how high or how low, even if such amounts may not be enough. and they may just be a bit bands compared to the high cost of living. so in that particular context,

some things are we have to understand that sir based, they're still reliable, but we have to take the results with. so because there are certain quantity constant will happen. 5 for example, majority of the population will also there on the again, but he would still be 2nd in terms of, you know, that ranking for vice president in the same way i, there will be fee on majority of the people agreeing that a, b, c, b, and which was shut down, needs to have a franchise, but the same bank, robot date being done. i don't the same video for that. it would still be high. it's that level of, i'm sorry, the and stress of respondents during the fun that me, that would have to be they get me back on. so in that so many words, what i want to stress here is that while there is popularity e, okay, we give them that on the white off that likes with that and either bro administration candidates. we have looked at the survey results done during the anatomy with a grain of salt because it,

because we have to take it on the inside of the instrument that went with the responses made by people who are interviewed during the survey. so i would rather be in a more while the 8 the analysis rather than just the can on that one. did they give empirical b as presented by the survey? cricket, richard, you touched on foreign policy a few minutes ago, a deterrence, his presidency was marked by shift away from the u. s. and towards china, you think that's going to continue under the next president. how indebted to china has the philippines become under 30? has it submitted to chinese expansionism in the south china sea and the, the west philippines sea? yeah, absolutely. down to foreign policy front. we also see a kind of a peak to terry to situation. as you may know, in recent months, the philippines in united states have somehow been making up right at present to terry to finally a sent a sent it to the restoration food. restoration of the visiting force is agreement

that he tried to abrogate a previous years of because of disagreements with the u. s. on human rights issues . and in fact, recently on the eve of this 70th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty of the united states and the philippines, philippines, defense minister of foreign minister with visit at washington dc. and they agreed on even further deepening their security corporations. i think even the 3rd a sensing that you know, he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of americans as he heads into this very difficult and uncertain terrain, which is the transition period towards the next president. i mean, yes, sire that there are they still number one in the survey, but she's increasingly tied with other candidates. she was at their own 28 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year. and now she's down to 20 percent. and who knows if auditors are gonna catch up including the marquesas and former alice la, fuck yell mirror when you lay scan moreno in as if your desert, the, you know, i think the target was smart enough to realize that the want to be under, on draw set of americans, it's not only because of the influence of americans, it's also all because of the fact that there are many people in the philippines defense establishment in the foreign policy,

elite establishment who believe that china is a legitimate threat to the philippines. and that, keeping it strong with americans, is it, you know, is, is a common sense, is that scenic way, non for defending the philippine national interest and service after surveys throughout the years. whether to pandemic or not. whether we have a climate of fear or not, show that 9 out of 10 filipinos want the philippines to take a tall for stands in the south china sea. so the, each of china is another vulnerability for prison to 3rd. and i expect a lot to office, even former. i like to go after him on the chinese listen. forget, few months ago, money pock yell went after the dirt and sing. you're not tough enough when china, that kind of patriotic nationalist, even anti china positioning will most likely see more of that in all from both centuries. and definitely the d all position are in the coming upcoming presidential debates like sar is going to run as the therapist brought see all the she, i see her is much more independent and quite different in her style of governance from her father. but she's going to run, she's going to be seen as a proxy. and she's going to be at the receiving end of every single criticism from

every corner of the political spectrum. as far as direct, as domestic and foreign policies concerned. criselda to, to agree with that a, how much this does foreign policy factor in to the way in which people vote in the philippines flare president. well, the thing there is that if you ask annoyed in a person in the corner of the street, whether he knows anything about the west philippine see the answer most likely will be no one but on a much broader scale. and in reference to, to the links that we have with the philippines has been with america. it's just something that can be broken. i mean, the filipinos are so attached to this kind of history that i don't think we've ever imagined a relationship. you know, our friendship without america. so yes, the china issue will also be a big factor most likely for the next elections. and that will probably fall on the

security sector in the military. how the military will react to that. because for so many years before they came along, they've been so anti china, they would even, you know, when it comes to procurement of defense material, they would not, they would even make sure that the chinese are not ball. and suddenly they had, you know, they had to do with a commander in chief who was telling them, well, you know, we have to be friends with china. so yeah, i think, you know, at the end of the day for the elections, i think people which is go down to the basics like, you know, having good livelihood and stuff like that. i'm afraid we're going to have to leave it because we're out of time. thank you. all of you crystal, the others that don't allow ad richard. hey dar into being with us today. thank you for watching target. you can see the program. i get it any time just by going to the website. i'll just hear a dot com for further discussion. join us on facebook page. you'll find that at

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