Tag: Constitutional Crisis

Lacson bares he was urged to join a ‘civil-military junta’—and refused, calling it ‘unconstitutional’

Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson revealed Sunday, November 23, that retired military officers had approached him about joining a supposed “civil-military junta,” an idea he said he rejected outright. In an interview on radio dzBB, Lacson recounted that some individuals had been pushing extra-constitutional options and even urged him to sit in a proposed “council,” which he immediately brushed aside.…

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