President Rodrigo Duterte has apparently given up on his campaign against gambling, on Saturday saying he was “lacking” and could only urge people to not engage in the vice.

“That gambling-gambling, I will not meddle with it anymore, just do not enter. I cannot control it, really... I will let you in, but not extortion or drugs,” he said at the PDP-Laban’s miting de avance in Pasig City on Saturday night.

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