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Bacani urges El Shaddai group not to vote for Duterte
A Catholic prelate has discouraged members of the charistmatic group El Shaddai from voting for presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte.
“I said openly to the El Shaddai people don’t vote for Duterte,” retired Novaliches Bishop Teodoro Bacani, said in an interview in Manila,Wednesday.
“The attitude, my goodness! I cannot imagine a Filipino president speaking like that,” he added.
The prelate, who is the spiritual adviser of El Shaddai, cited the time when Duterte cursed Pope Francis as one of the reasons why he is not in favor of the Davao Mayor becoming a president.
Duterte cursed the Pope after he was trapped in heavy traffic in Manila during the papal visit in January 2015. The former already apologized for his action.
Just recently, the Davao Mayor said that he had been forgiven for the incident by the Vatican through a letter.
Duterte again earned flak from different groups and individuals for allegedly joking about the rape and murder of Australian missionary during a bloody hostage-taking incident at the Davao jail in 1989.
The response of the El Shaddai members when he asked them not to vote for Duterte, Bacani said they were “in complete agreement”.
Bacani, however, clarified that he was able to talk only to a few members of the group and not the entire El Shaddai.
He also stressed that he does not have any idea as to who will be the presidential candidate that will be endorsed by El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde for the May 2016 polls.
“I dont know who it is that he will endorse,” said Bacani.
But, he said, four of the five presidential candidates already met with Velarde which include Duterte.
Bacani said the four were Vice President Jejomar Binay, Senator Grace Poe and former Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas.
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo also finds Duterte’s idea of solving drugs and criminality if elected president as very worrisome.
“That to me is very worrisome if that’s his idea…but what is more worrisome is if many people share the opinion that you can do evil by fighting evil. If that’s how we view things then the country’s morality has deteriorated,” he said in a separate interview.
Duterte earlier promised to eliminate the drug menace and criminality within three to six months if he becomes President.
He also said that his first three to six months will be “bloody”.
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