Considering that only the President is immune from lawsuits, a legal verity which President Rodrigo Duterte fully knows, then his pretext of running for vice president to enjoy “immunity”, spills the beans on his real intention to become successor-president the moment the office of the elected president in 2022 is vacated by design or fortuitous event.
In the hierarchy of constitutional liberties, freedom of expression, which includes the freedom of the press, enjoys preeminence because the availment of other fundamental freedoms depends on the full guarantee of free speech and free press.
Administration officials try to help President Rodrigo Duterte evade the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by foisting the principle of complementarity. This means the ICC will not exercise jurisdiction over the perpetrators of covered offenses, like crimes against humanity and massive extrajudicial killings (EJKs), if the country’s domestic authorities, principally the courts, are functioning and the alleged offenders are prosecuted impartially and independently.
ONE of the landmark legislations approved into law by the late President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd was the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 or the RH law.
After 13 years of arduous advocacy and steadfast crusade of RH champions, the controversial Reproductive Health Bill was enacted as Republic Act No. 10354 on Dec. 21, 2012 when President Aquino approved it.
Paucity in appropriation is aggravated by ineptness in fund utilization for the pandemic response.
