During the senator’s 80th birthday, he said that people should appreciate Duterte’s work on resolving the country’s problem in illegal drugs, corrupt police officials, and rebellions of the Islamic State.
“In a way, you should be thankful that Duterte came because he’s now working to solve the drug problem, the criminality of the police or tulisan, ISIS and all these.
At the age of 72! Would you rather live under a system like North Korea? That is the prototype of the system that some people want to install in this country,” Enrile shared to the Philippine Star.
The senator argued that Duterte is entitled to declare martial law in the entire country as it is facing bigger problems, than the administration of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
“Duterte might declare martial law because he has bigger problems now than Marcos. He has the communist insurgency, ISIS, a big drug problem, a vociferous opposition and the traditional problem of Mindanao. Our problems were the MNLF, CPP-NPA, that’s it.
We didn’t have ISIS, we didn’t have the drug problem,” the senator added.
Enrile is close to the former President Marcos as he was his protégé and one of the architects of the previous martial law.
He said that he would not contradict Duterte if ever he does declare martial law.
“Whether I support him or not, we will be under martial law if he declares it. What can I do? I will not oppose him. How can I, I’m no longer in politics? If they can’t find a different methodology to control the situation, he might declare martial law,” Enrile stated.
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