{"id":156308,"date":"2018-03-13T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156308"},"modified":"2018-03-13T05:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:45:02","slug":"cha-cha-should-ban-duterte-from-re-election-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/13\/cha-cha-should-ban-duterte-from-re-election-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha-cha should ban Duterte from re-election \u2013 professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155845\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippines takes grave exception to the &quot;irresponsible and disrespectful&quot; comments of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights against President Rodrigo R. Duterte, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday night. (ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rody-Duterte-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo R. Duterte (ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the administration prepares for a shift to a federal form of government by going through different amendment and revision proposals, a professor argued on March 13 that the new constitution should ban the President from running again.<\/p>\n<p>During the Senate hearing on Charter-change (Cha-cha), University of the Philippines (UP) Political Science professor Gene Lacza Pilapil pointed out that Cha-cha is a \u201cclassic strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanging constitutions is a classic strategy of autocratic leaders elected in democracies but who later undermined their democracies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It was in late January when President Rodrigo Roa Duterte formed the consultative committee (con-com) to study proposals on the amendments and revisions of the Constitution, to pave way for a federal form of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWrite down a provision banning the incumbent president to allay the valid fears of many Filipinos that this shift to federalism is part of the same script of the current president and his key allies to remain in power beyond his constitutionally mandated term limit under the 1987 Constitution,\u201d Pilapil called on the committee headed by former Chief Justice Reynato Puno.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the UP professor also dared Duterte\u2019s inconsistent remarks and promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It] is as good as his campaign promise to ride a jet ski to the Spratlys, a promise which he now teases his own supporters for believing,\u201d Pilapil said.<\/p>\n<p>The professor was referring to one of Duterte\u2019s statements during his campaign for the presidency in April 2016, in which he said that he will ride a jet ski to Spratlys and erect a Philippine flag there, challenging China. The President last week said that he was only joking then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo make sure that in 2022 he does not tease the country for believing him in 2018 that he will step down once his term ends under the 1987 Constitution, institutionalize his promise to step down by constitutionally barring him to run in your proposed federal constitutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBan Duterte, defend democracy,\u201d Pilapil added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the administration prepares for a shift to a federal form of government by going through different amendment and revision &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[48131,14387,3295],"class_list":["post-156308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-gene-lacza-pilapil","tag-rodrigo-roa-duterte","tag-university-of-the-philippines","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}