Why are European Union (EU) officials critical of President Rodrigo Duterte? According to the logic of Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar “they just need more sex.”
“Iyung mga maingay na palaiyot, sila po, ang problema sa kanila, hanggang ingay lang, wala namang napatunayan,” Andanar said in Tagalog to UK-based Filipinos in a video posted by Duterte News Stream Live, posted on Monday.
In English, what he said translates to, “those sex hungry (EU officials) making noise, the problem with them is that all they can do is make noise, they haven’t proven anything.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHDlmm1iso
He continued, “if you ask their prime ministers or presidents, the ones who really run the country — they’ll even support president Duterte. Those sex hungry people at the bottom, they’re just making noise because they aren’t having enough sex.”
The term “iyot” is Cebuano for sex.
Duterte has repeatedly cursed at the EU for its criticisms of his bloody anti-narcotics campaign. Most recently, he dared its diplomats to leave the Philippines.
Andanar told EU officials not to meddle in Philippine affairs.
“We don’t meddle in the EU because we respect their mandate to govern their countries. What we ask from them is respect,” Andanar said in Tagalog.
“If those in the EU are like that, we in the Philippines, we have “breeding.” Just leave them be, they can fuck all they want,” he added, drawing laughs from the audience.
When reporters asked him earlier today about his comments, Andanar said it was a joke.
“A comment made amongst DDS (Duterte supporters) friends in jest,” he explained.
“I was referring to organizations in Europe criticizing PRRD (Duterte),” Andanar added.
Andanar is in the UK with Communications Assistant Secretary Kris Ablan for the 2-day Making All Voices Count Policy and Practice Dialogue.
Duterte and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano earlier said the Philippines would no longer accept aid from the EU so that the bloc would stop meddling in the country’s internal affairs.
The government has many times defended Duterte’s war on drugs, where about 3,800 people have died in presumed-legitimate police operations, according to police statistics.
Human rights groups estimate that the death toll in the war on drugs could be more than 13,000, a figure dismissed by the government as overblown.
The administration has said it does not sanction summary killings of drug suspects, adding that those slain in police operations had put up violent resistance.
with reports from ABS-CBN News
