MALACAÑANG on Friday walked back President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to kick out European Union (EU) envoys in the country and cut the country’s diplomatic ties with the 29-member bloc amid criticisms of his bloody war on drugs.
Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella clarified during Friday’s news conference that the President’s outburst was actually directed at international parliamentarians and civil society leaders from Progressive Alliance and the Party of European Socialists.
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