The camp of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday hit back at the Philippine Left for criticizing the economic agenda of the incoming administration.

“Leftist groups have rejected the hands of friendship and cooperation by the incoming Duterte administration by mouthing their usual criticism of others but not undertaking their own criticism, self-criticism,” Duterte’s spokesman Peter Laviña said in a Facebook post.

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