(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte vowed the next elections would be “clean.”
“In this election I commit to the Filipino people that this will be a clean election,” Duterte said in a speech at a Hugpong ng Pagbabago event on Friday, Aug. 17.
He said he would ask the Commission on Elections to deputize him.
He said “in the next few months,” he would impose the Alunan doctrine, which limits the number of armed guards.
Two or more guards under the doctrine is considered a private army.
“Walang makadala ng baril, except maybe police,” he said, noting that “you cannot bring long firearms” during election time.
According to Duterte, he would also order the military and the police “not to interfere if you are not deputized by Comelec..maski saan, maJolo o Abra.”
He said the military was “prohibited from joining political sorties.”
He said if the New People’s Army makes trouble, or he hears of any “terroris(t) attack,” “ako mismo pupunta and I will enforce the law.”
“There will be voting and votes will be counted correctly,” he said.