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| Duterte led the Eid al-Fitr celebration at the Rizal Hall in Malacañang. |
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night made an appearance in Malacañang after a six-day hiatus from the public’s sight.
It has been how many weeks since we haven't heard or seen the President in the lime light.
President Rodrigo Duterte is “alive and well." This was Malacañang’s statement amid speculations on the president’s health condition following his seventh day of absence from the public eye.
Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Duterte is busy doing his duties as president and that he is attending to paperwork away from the public’s eye.
“He is alive and well. He is very well. He is just busy doing what he really needs to do,” Abella said during a televised press briefing on Tuesday.
“He signs papers, he reads, he consults. He is actually very busy but the thing that is very important to know is that he is on top of every situation,” he added.
Abella pointed out that Duterte is aware of the happenings and regularly receives updates.
“This is just his, like we said, working style and it was not meant to cast aspersions upon anybody but this is the way he works,” he explained.
President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to bring besieged Marawi City back to its old glory as weeks of clashes between state forces and Islamic State-linked terrorists have left parts of the once bustling Lanao del Sur capital in ruins.
"Sabi ko tatapusin ko talaga ito but one thing I will promise you: I will see to it that Marawi will rise as a prosperous city again," Duterte said in Malacañang during the Eid al-Fitr celebration.
Source: News/ Inquirer
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