{"id":158314,"date":"2018-03-27T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158314"},"modified":"2018-03-27T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:02:41","slug":"duterte-cannot-extend-term-under-new-charter-says-con-com-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/27\/duterte-cannot-extend-term-under-new-charter-says-con-com-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte cannot extend term\u00a0under new charter, says Con-com head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s term as chief executive can&#8217;t seek re-election under the proposed federal constitution, Consultative committee chairman Reynato Puno said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Duterte was elected under the 1987 Constitution, the limits of the term under that Constitution will still apply, which means he cannot seek reelection, Puno explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u201cAs of now the prohibitions and term limits under the 1987 Constitution would still be binding,\u201d Puno said in a media briefing\u00a0<span>on Monday<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He guaranteed that the consultative committee will not include amendments that would give way for public officials extend their terms in office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere will be no holdover provision,\u201d Puno said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Puno added that there is no need for Duterte to extend his term beyond 2022, adding that by the time the government has already shifted to a federal form, a new president will be voted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 03\/ 27 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s term as chief executive can&#8217;t seek re-election under the proposed federal constitution, Consultative committee chairman Reynato Puno &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13135,44611],"class_list":["post-158314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-reynato-puno","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158314","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=158314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}