REP. Edcel Lagman of Albay is not giving up the fight as he vowed to go the Supreme Court next week to question the congressional vote allowing President Rodrigo Duterte to extend martial law until yearend.

“The discretion of Congress to fix the period of the extension is not absolute. These safeguards will be eroded by an inordinately long extension,” Lagman told The Manila Times on Sunday, a day after a special joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, extended martial law in Mindanao until December 31, 2017 with a vote of 261-18.

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