In a speech in Pampanga on Thursday, President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants to modify the Constitutional provision that gives Congress and the Supreme Court the power to revoke or uphold a president’s decision to declare martial law.
“If I declare martial law amid an invasion or war, I cannot proceed on and on, especially if there is unrest. I would need to go to Congress and to the Supreme Court,” Duterte said in Filipino.
“Well, what happens if the Supreme Court says one thing and Congress says another — one says yes and the other says no? Where would you put me? That’s why I really need to change it,” he added.
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