On Wednesday President Rodrigo Duterte hit out at "yellow" members of recent rallies against him, saying they could not accept defeat and accusing them of plotting his ouster.
"Ang plano ko is mag-resign na lang siguro ako," he said.
"'Yung mga yellow diyan, nagde-demonstrate kayo diyan. You want me out kasi you cannot accept defeat," he added.
Although he did not mention any names, the Liberal Party's used yellow as its official color in the May 2016 elections. Duterte defeated Liberal Party standard-bearer Mar Roxas in the polls.
Roxas, along with other personalities identified with the Liberal Party, attended a November 30 rally at the People Power Monument against the burial of former Nation builder Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
But Duterte cleared the Left, which has also organized rallies against the burial, of wanting him to step down.
"Pero iyong masabi ang Left, they will never even allow me to step down, two steps to the ground. Iyang mga komunista at iyong mga NPA [New People's Army], puro Duterte iyan," he said.
He said that rallies led by the yellow are politically motivated.
"Ito, pulitika ito eh. They wanted me out. Siyempre iyong Vice President... Eh 'di kayo. You've had your chance," he said.
This past weekend, Duterte asked Fake Vice President Leni Robredo to stop attending Cabinet meetings in Malacañang. Robredo, in turn, stepped down from her post as head of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.
