THE decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to uphold the legality of the EnhanceD Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States contradicted the power vested by the Constitution on the Senate to ratify treaties, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said on Sunday.

Santiago, who authored Senate Resolution 1414, expressing the strong sense of the chamber that EDCA requires Senate concurrence, noted that the Constitution clearly states that “without Senate concurrence, no treaty can become law.”

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