Duterte allies push for Constitutional amendments

POLITICAL ALLIES of President Rodrigo Duterte are pushing - in the middle of the pandemic - for amendments in the Constitution ahead of national elections next year.

Duterte goes ballistic, calls lawmaker ‘dog poop’

DAVAO CITY – Filipino leader Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a pro-communist lawmaker and lawyer Carlos Zarate and called him “dog shit” during a public broadcast, and accused his group and other partylist organizations as fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA) and the political National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).