MalacaÑang on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte is willing to meet with jeepney groups that staged a transport strike on Monday over a government plan to phase out their vehicles.

In a news conference, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said Duterte intends to listen to concerns of jeepney operators and drivers on the planned phaseout of aging jeepneys 15 years and older.

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