December 5, 2016 7:25 PM

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Philippine Vice President quits Cabinet

The Philippine Vice President, Leni Robredo resigned her Cabinet post today after citing irreconcilable differences with President Rodrigo Duterte, who had banned her from attending Cabinet meetings, in a new political dilemma for the leader. <br/><br/>Robredo, who stepped down as Housing Secretary but will stay on as Vice President, spoke of major differences in principles and values with the brash-talking President and a plot to remove her from the Vice Presidency. Duterte accepted her resignation with a heavy heart and immediately named a replacement.<br/><br/>Robredo is the second official to resign from Duterte's administration in less than a week. Maria Serena Diokno quit<br/>as head of the government's historical commission last Tuesday<br/>to protest Duterte's decision to allow Marcos' November 18 burial in the cemetery.

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