PBBM stands firm on ICC stance despite poll showing most Filipinos support drug war probe

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Despite more Filipinos backing the government's cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its probe on the previous administration's bloody drug war, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said the country will continue to block any attempt by the judicial body to intervene in the country.

An alleged drug suspect lies on the ground beside a gun after he and his companion were killed by police as they tried to evade a checkpoint as part of the continuing “War on Drugs” campaign in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. The Philippine justice secretary said Friday, Jan.

The chief executive made the remark in an ambush interview during the 16th Ani ng Dangal Award at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila last Tuesday when asked about the result of a new Octa Research poll, which showed that 55 percent of adult Filipinos favor the cooperation with ICC. The President has consistently stated the ICC no longer has any jurisdiction over the Philippines after it withdrew from the Rome Statute in 2019.

He noted the government will not cooperate with the probe, but he said the ICC representatives are free to enter the country “as ordinary people.”

 

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