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Former president Duterte pushed hard for charter change through a constituent assembly, complete with proposals to scrap the 2019 midterm elections and extend the terms of incumbent officials — including Duterte himself
Senator Imee Marcos took the Senate floor last Monday to sound the alarm about a dirty administration plot to scrap the 2028 elections and extend her brother’s term through charter change. The Constitution, sacred and inviolable, must be defended, she said. And in a moment of triumphalist inanity, Marcos rallied the public to rise in righteous indignation behind the majority bloc, which she called the “Great 13.”
Why they refuse to call themselves the “Duterte 13” boggles the mind.
It was a speech that makes Duterte loyalists go weak in the knees. No-elections and term extensions are the latest talking points from the troll farm, and the presidential sister tried to memorialize it in the chamber’s records for posterity. For the rest of the nation, it was just another day in the Duterte household, otherwise known as the Cayetano Senate, better known as “Bahay ni Tatay” featuring some housemates who grow more theatrical and nutty with each session.
