Marcos rules out Philippines rejoining ICC ahead of plan to resume probe

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday ruled out the Philippines rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose prosecutor plans to resume an
investigation into the previous government’s bloody “war on drugs”.
The Philippines withdrew from the ICC in 2019, with then President Rodrigo Duterte accusing it of prejudice by starting a preliminary examination into thousands of killings by police.
“The Philippines has no intention of rejoining the ICC,” Marcos told reporters, adding he met last week met with his legal team to discuss a resumption of the ICC investigation.