Malacañang on Saturday clarified that the Office of the President had no hand in the proposal to amend the Bill of Rights.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque made the clarification after Deputy Speaker Fredenil Castro claimed that the recommendation to protect only the “responsible exercise of free speech” in the new Constitution came from a committee under the Office of the President.

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