{"id":61659,"date":"2024-02-05T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/philippines-secession-attempts-force-mindanao-president-ferdinand-marcos-jr-alliance"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:05:41","slug":"philippines-says-it-is-ready-to-use-force-to-quell-secession-attempts-as-duterte-row-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61659","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says it is ready to use force to quell secession attempts as Duterte row deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president has called for his home region, Mindanao, to split from the Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr crumbles<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine government is ready to use \u201cauthority and forces\u201d against attempts to divide the nation, a security official has said, after former president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to separate some southern islands from the rest of the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has called for the independence of his home region, Mindanao, from the Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/29\/rodrigo-duterte-calls-philippine-president-drug-addict-rift-deepens-ferdinand-marcos-jr\">disintegrated this week<\/a> over disagreements around efforts to amend the constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/philippines-secession-attempts-force-mindanao-president-ferdinand-marcos-jr-alliance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president has called for his home region, Mindanao, to split from the Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr crumblesThe Philippine government is ready to use \u201cauthority and forces\u201d against attempts to divide the nation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659\/revisions\/61660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}