MALACAÑANG on Thursday assured the public that the emergency powers President Rodrigo Duterte is seeking from Congress to solve the traffic crisis will not be abused.

Speaking to reporters, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said there was nothing to fear in vesting emergency powers on the President, saying these would not be “absolute.”

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