President Duterte took a swipe at opposition Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan not only for his alleged flawed juvenile justice law but also about his supposed marital trouble.
The President claimed that Pangilinan has been asked to move out from the house by his wife Sharon Cuneta.
“Alam mo ba ‘yun si Pangilinan? Kayo, kayo lahat, kayong lahat. Bumilib kayo sa gunggong na ‘yan?” he said during the Bonifacio Day commemoration in Caloocan City last Saturday.
“Pinapaalis na nga ng asawa niya sa bahay niya, ayaw kay wala ibang matirahan. Totoo. Tanungin mo. At kung sabihin mo nagsisinungaling ako, I will resign. Ang sinasabi ko totoo ‘yan,” he added.
Cuneta had previously admitted that her marriage to Pangilinan almost ended two years ago. The megastar, in an Instagram post in 2018, said they fought many times in the past two decades but never over a third party.
The President made the allegation about Pangilnan’s marital woes in his latest tirade for authoring a law that supposedly let youth offenders to get away with their offenses.
“Hindi mo mahuli 15-years-old. They go in and out of prison because of the Pangilinan law…They steal, they kill, they rape and kill. Whatever the crime is. They are scot-free,” he said.
He also criticized Pangilinan for seeking his appointment as presidential adviser on agriculture during the past administration. (Genalyn Kabiling)