SENATE Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Thursday that only Congress had the power to extend martial law.
Drilon dismissed the claim of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Secretary Salvador Panelo that President Rodrigo Duterte could just issue a new martial law proclamation if Congress did not extend Proclamation 216 placing Mindanao under martial law.
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