{"id":162524,"date":"2018-05-03T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162524"},"modified":"2018-05-03T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:55:49","slug":"con-com-aims-to-grant-power-to-declare-state-of-war-to-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/03\/con-com-aims-to-grant-power-to-declare-state-of-war-to-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Con-com aims to grant president power to declare \u2018state of war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over a meeting with the members of the Consultative Meeting at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on February 13, 2018. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Consultative committee (Con-com) is currently reviewing proposals and eyeing to grant the Chief Executive the power to declare the existence of a state of war in the amendments and\/or revision of the 1987 Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the event, Congress is unable to convene, the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the power to declare the existence of the state of war, and shall exercise all powers necessary,\u201d the proposed line states.<\/p>\n

According to Con-com member and Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Eduardo Nachura on May 3, Thursday, this power is only an option in the situation of \u201cactual hostilities\u201d that block the possibility and immediacy of the members of the upper chamber and lower chamber from assembling and declaring.<\/p>\n

With this, the President will have the option to \u201cexercise all powers necessary.\u201d Reporters in the press conference then asked for safety nets in cases of possible abuse of power.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress itself should provide the safeguard. If Congress can meet at any time after that, they can undo what the President did,\u201d Nachura said.<\/p>\n

In the current Constitution, Article VI, Section 23, it states that the \u201cCongress, by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses in joint session assembled, voting separately, shall have the sole power to declare the existence of a state of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn times of war or other national emergency, the Congress may, by law, authorize the President, for a limited period and subject to such restrictions as it may prescribe, to exercise powers necessary and proper to carry out a declared national policy. Unless sooner withdrawn by resolution of the Congress, such powers shall cease upon the next adjournment thereof,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The Con-com was formed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in late January, headed by former Chief Justice Reynato Puno to review proposals of amendments and revisions to the current Constitution in preparation of a federal form of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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