On guard Philippine troops standing at attention during a send-off ceremony for the May 13 midterm elections at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila. More than 200,000 police and troops, along with thousands more teachers and government workers, are mobilised for the midterm elections that would elect 12 senators, congressmen and local leaders in the country. — AP
MANILA: The government linked the political party of former president Benigno Aquino and a group of former dissident soldiers to a purported plot to discredit President Rodrigo Duterte and bolster opposition candidates running in next week’s midterm elections.
“It is obvious these groups have banded together to discredit the Duterte administration,” Duterte’s spokesman Salvador Panelo said at a news conference yesterday.
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