PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has the authority to stop the implementation of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the US that allows the rotational presence of American troops in the country.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo made the clarification on Wednesday amid statements Duterte was “misinformed” when he announced that he might repudiate the EDCA because it did not have the signature of former President Benigno Aquino 3rd.
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