As crises threaten, should Aquino step aside?

RECENTLY, fellow columnist and former senator Kit Tatad expounded on moral and governance reasons why President Benigno Aquino 3rd should resign, as cited by the National Transformation Council of religious and civil society figures led by the revered Cardinal Ricardo Vidal.

The NTC’s Lipa Declaration, reiterated in Cebu this month, said Aquino had lost the moral authority to lead for having grossly violated the Constitution by bribing Congress, undermining judicial independence, usurping the power of the purse, and electronically manipulating elections.