(UPDATE) FORMER Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo on Saturday branded as "dirty politics" the removal of Vice President Sara Duterte as a member of the National Security Council (NSC).

Panelo issued the statement after the vice president and former presidents, including her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, were excluded from the NSC in an executive order (EO) reorganizing the presidential advisory body principally responsible for coordinating and integrating government plans and policies related to national security.

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