A measure signed into law by Corazon Aquino just before losing her transitional powers as revolutionary president to the elected Congress in 1987 may rescue her son President Benigno Aquino 3rd from a political downfall that could loom over his legal blunder on the use of a presidential development fund.

A former official of the Cory Aquino Cabinet said Malacañang can invoke that law in defense of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which was recently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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