Part of the oath that the president took before entering office is to 'preserve and defend its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to every man, and consecrate myself to the service of the Nation.'
President Rodrigo Duterte’s remarks against the 1987 Constitution triggered conversations anew on whether he violated the law because of it or people took it out of context.
Duterte allegedly likened the Constitution to toilet paper that the Chinese will use should he enforce the country’s maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea following the collision incident between a Chinese trawler and a Filipino fishing boat last June.His weak stance on the tragedy even if it put the lives of the 22-member Filipino crew at risk prompted his critics to float the idea of filing a case of impeachment against him.“Impeach ako? Kulungin ko sila lahat.
From here, he presumed China’s possible reaction if he will impose the country’s sovereign rights on the 200-nautical mile EEZ.“I will go and tell them, get out, this is the Constitution. They will tell you, ‘you run out of toilet paper, use that,” he said.“If they say, you present to me a Constitution like that and we have this ruckus claiming the same place in our jurisdiction, I will say, if you do not have something to wipe your butt with, use your constitution.
Duterte went on and said: “That piece of paper, the Constitution, will become meaningless, with no spirit except desperation, agony and suffering.”“What he means is that China will not listen to us saying that ‘but our Constitution says so.’ They will tell us, ‘So what? As far as we are concerned, we own this, that doesn’t matter to us,’” Spokesman Salvador Panelo
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