‘VP Duterte’ push an insidious move to circumvent Constitution – Monsod

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‘VP Duterte’ push an insidious move to circumvent Constitution – Monsod
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Former Comelec chair Christian Monsod also asks whether the push for Duterte’s vice presidential run is a means to escape accountability. PHVote WeDecide

The effort by the country’s ruling party PDP-Laban to “convince” President Rodrigo Duterte to run for vice president in the 2022 elections is a clear attempt to get around the 1987 Philippine Constitution, one of its framers said.

“To allow a president to run as vice president would open the door to a term even longer than the replaced provision of a maximum of eight years,” he said.to run for vice president in 2022 on May 31, the party gave him a free hand to choose his candidate for president. In 2001, Arroyo, who was only serving as vice president for nearly three years, ascended to the country’s top post, after then-president and corruption-ridden Joseph Estrada was ousted from office following the “People Power 2” uprising. She then won the presidential election in 2004 and completed a six-year term.

“The outgoing president should be preparing to step down by now by fast-tracking unfinished promises, and worried about being held to account, and committed to a peaceful transfer of power,” he said.

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