The “Reds will die for me,” President Rodrigo Duterte declared early this week at a business forum.

Evidently, the statement was meant to telegraph the message to the “Yellows” who are perceived to be coveting his seat in Malacañang that he has got his back covered by friends whose politics and ideology he does not necessarily embrace.

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