President Rodrigo Duterte is not using Health Secretary Francisco Duque III as a 'scapegoat' for the government’s lapses in the COVID-19 response, Malacañang says.
President Rodrigo Duterte is not using Health Secretary Francisco Duque III as a “scapegoat” for the government’s lapses in the COVID-19 response, Malacañang said Wednesday.
“I can tell you the President has not been treating Secretary Duque as a whipping boy. It has never been the case that I think the President has ever used him as a whipping boy,” Roque said in an interview with The Source. “He is always been supportive of Secretary Duque, he says mistakes have been made, for as long as these mistakes were done in good faith, then it’s no reason for him to lose confidence so let’s leave it at that,” the spokesperson noted.
“My guess is the President just needs a whipping boy for the tragedy that they themselves have brought to our nation.. Is that your strategy? Have we cracked the code? So basically, you are letting Sec. Duque act as captain of the sinking ship so that he can be this administration’s fall guy?” the detained senator wrote.
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