Malacañang on Saturday underscored the need for peace and order in the country as it chided a European Union (EU) official for threatening to review trade deals amid drug-related killings and moves to re-impose the death penalty.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said this after EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed concern over the administration’s no-nonsense war on illegal drugs and the plan by lawmakers to revive the death penalty.

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