Duterte Intends to Change the Name of Malacañan Palace
In a press meeting, President Rodrigo Duterte expressed he is planning to change the name of the 200-year-old Malacañan Palace.
“Call it Malacañan Palace, I only call it ‘The People’s Palace.’ One day I will rename it, ‘People’s Palace,'” he told reporters in Davao City early Thursday morning.
“That’s why I always say it, I know the palace of the people called Malacañang. You have heard me say that. I never say diretso ‘Malacañan Palace.’ Hindi naman palasyo iyan eh. Noon lang iyan sa mga panahon ng mga p— i— pumunta dito at ginawa tayong alipin. ‘Yun mga Espanyol pati mga Amerikano, sino pa?” he said.
“You know why? In the word “Malacañan,” it sucks with imperialism. Totoo. Sino man ang nagpangalan ng ‘Malacañan Palace’? Mga Espanyol man iyan. Why should [not] I just address it as the ‘People’s Palace of the Republic of the Philippines’?” he added.
The President said the term Palace was only used during the Spanish and American regime in the Philippines.
“Hindi naman palasyo yan eh. Noon lang’ yan sa mga panahon ng mga p****g-i***g pumunta dito at ginawa tayong alipin. ‘Yun mga Español pati mga Amerikano, sino pa?” he said.
(It’s not a palace. It was only called that during the regime of those (invective) who came here to conquer us. The Spanish and the Americans, who else?)
He said he was bent on changing the name because the term “Malacañan” was associated with imperialism.
Duterte added that he intends the name changed before his term ends.
