Has Aquino’s plan to oust Duterte changed?

Duterte’s conciliatory statement

President B.S. Aquino 3rd and Vice President Jejomar Binay must have heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing that presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte does not intend to file criminal charges against them after their term ends on June 30. Nobody expected this, after Duterte has expressed his desire to revive the death penalty in order to hang criminals. But it cannot mean very much, unless justice and the rule of law would remain in the President’s tight grip as it has these last six years.