PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte might step down from office if former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. wins his election protest against Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, Malacañang said on Thursday.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. clarified that the President was merely expressing his “exasperation” at pervasive corruption in government during remarks in a Malacañang dinner on Tuesday, where he said he was thinking of resigning but could not do so because Robredo is the constitutional successor.

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