(13 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila, Philippines – 13 January 2025
1. Members of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) religious group pan left to stage of National Rally for Peace
2. Placard reading (English) “INC is for unity” and (Tagalog) "Solve the problem. Don’t make it bigger”
3. Placard reading (English) “Peace for the Philippines
4. Various of large crowd
5. People cheering
6. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Krisline Maines, INC member.
“This National rally for peace was proposed by our leader Eduardo Manalo to support the proposal of the President of the Republic of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. not to support the impeachment of the Vice President of the Philippines, Sara Duterte. The purpose of this National Rally for peace is for the peace of our country the Philippines.”
7. Various of crowd walking to rally
STORYLINE:
More than a million members of a religious group participated in the National Rally for Peace in Manila and other parts of the country on Monday.
Inglesia ni Cristo, an influential religious organization appealed for unity and peace amid the political storm in the country.
“This National Rally for Peace was proposed by our leader Eduardo Manalo to support the proposal of the President of the Republic of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. not to support the impeachment of the Vice President of the Philippines, Sara Duterte," said INC member, Krisline Maines.
An impeachment complaint was filed last month against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.
The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Duterte did not immediately issue any response to the impeachment bid, which accused her of about two dozen alleged crimes.
The president has said an impeachment of Duterte would waste time while the country faces other challenges, but her opponents have said they will proceed to foster accountability and the rule of law.
Marcos and Duterte won landslide victories as running mates in the 2022 election but have since fallen out over key differences.
The two offices are elected separately in the Philippines, which has resulted in rivals occupying the country’s top political posts.
Marcos and Duterte differ in their approaches to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and their views on the deadly anti-drug crackdown conducted by Duterte’s father, Rodrigo Duterte, who was the previous president in addition to ex-mayor of Davao.
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