MALACAÑANG dismissed on Wednesday the Catholic bishops’ warning against a “creeping dictatorship” under President Rodrigo Duterte amid his administration’s push to amend the Constitution through a Constituent Assembly.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said the Constituent Assembly was one of three constitutional means to introduce amendments to the Charter.

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