After challenging retired Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio to a debate on the West Philippine Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte has backed out and tapped his spokesman to debate with the magistrate instead after cabinet members raised concerns.
There was a sense from the Cabinet that Duterte might make irreversible policy declarations, posing big consequences to government initiatives.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque was slated to attend the Friday debate instead.
"Everything the President will say in that debate will affect the policies of government. He can't take back what he says in that debate apart from the fact that there is what we call executive privilege," said Roque in Filipino.
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