Democracy Watch: Under Duterte

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Apart from the declaration of a state of emergency that empowers President Duterte to call in the military to quell lawlessness, presidential legal adviser Salvador Panelo is toying with the idea of giving the Chief Executive expanded powers under a “constitutional dictatorship.”

Such a dictatorship, Panelo explained, would give Duterte powers over both the executive and legislative branches to speed up reforms.

“What I am saying is, it’s constitutional. You revise the Constitution, give the powers to the President, (the) legislative and executive powers. So in a sense it’s like dictatorship because he has two powers but all of them are constitutional,” Panelo told ANC Thursday.

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Simple Definition of constitutional

: allowed by a country's constitution

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Simple Definition of revise

: to make changes especially to correct or improve (something)

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