By Prince Golez
President Rodrigo Duterte thanked ABS-CBN for helping the government during the coronavirus (Covid-19) health crisis, his spokesman said Wednesday.
This, after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued a cease and desist order against the media company due to the expiration of its legislative franchise.
“He has said that I should thank ABS-CBN for all the help that ABS-CBN has in fact extended. I was even under instruction to enumerate the many things that ABS-CBN has done in connection with Covid-19,” Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said in an interview with ANC.
“In the same light that he has asked, in an unprecedented manner, forgiveness from two of the tycoons that he originally wanted me to file cases against so that they will be behind bars, he said that anyone who has helped the people in this time of crisis, I will be grateful to. And, that’s why if he could, he probably would have done something for the ABS-CBN franchise. But, the President is a lawyer. The law may be harsh… but that is the law. Dura lex, sed lex,” he added.
In its May 5 order, the NTC directed ABS-CBN to stop operating its TV and radio broadcasting stations nationwide “absent a valid congressional franchise as required by law.”
It also gave the network 10 days from receipt of the order to respond as to why the frequencies assigned to it should not be recalled.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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