The threat of President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a "revolutionary government" has no constitutional basis and is based on imagined fears.

A revolutionary government is the result of a successful people’s uprising or revolt overthrowing an incumbent President and his subalterns like the EDSA People Power revolution.

It is not a product of a self-serving declaration of a sitting President ostensibly to retain and prolong the exercise of powers and “crush” perceived enemies of the state.

There are no destabilization plots or serious threats from the Left and political opposition.

What is current is critical dissent to protest and prevent the President’s destruction of democratic institutions like derogating the independence of the Ombudsman and the Supreme Court Chief Justice, among others.

The attempt to constitute a “revolutionary government” is to avoid Congressional intervention and rejection which is constitutionally mandated when martial law is declared by the President.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN