The unanimous upholding by the Supreme Court of the election of Vice President Leni Robredo verily sustains the electoral will.
The unanimous upholding by the Supreme Court of the election of Vice President Leni Robredo verily sustains the electoral will.
While the protection of Filipinos in Myanmar is a major concern of the Philippine government, the death of democracy in Myanmar as a result of a military coup d’état should not be sidelined by the Duterte administration as a purely domestic matter.
While there may be no strict legal impediments to a “Duterte-Duterte” tandem (Sara Duterte for President and Rodrigo Duterte for Vice-President) in the 2022 elections, this perilous combination would result to the circumvention of constitutional prohibitions and the perpetration of patent unethical indiscretions.
Rep. Edcel C. Lagman filed yesterday House Resolution No. 1490 urging the House Committee on Human Rights to immediately conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the unilateral abrogation by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana of the 1989 UP-DND Agreement.
The repressive policies of the Duterte administration have gone berserk as it is now open season for the military invasion of UP campuses.
The unilateral and baseless abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND accord red-tags the entire UP constituencies nationwide consisting of UP Diliman, UP Manila, UP Los Baños, UP Visayas, and the regional units in Baguio, San Fernando, Tacloban, Ming-ao (Iloilo), and Cebu.