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‘No internal disagreements’ in defense team—Duterte lawyer
Manila Bulletin
|August 03 2025
Former president Rodrigo Duterte’s lead counsel Nicholas Kaufman clarified that there are “no internal disagreements” within the defense team amid allegations made by Duterte’s common-law wife, Honeylet Avancefia that he was not personally engaging with the former chief executive.
In an interview with pro-Duterte blogger Alvin & Tourism on Friday, Aug. 1, Kaufman shrugged off Avancefia’s claims, and said: “There are absolutely no internal disagreements among the persons responsible for handling the former President’s defense.”
He also stressed that Vice President Sara Duterte “is fully qualified to judge the quality of my engagement with and work for the former President.”
Kaufman likewise refused to elaborate on reports that Avancefia, the former president’s common-law wife, was unable to visit him at the Scheveningen Prison in The Hague, Netherlands.
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