It’s time to clarify the vice president’s role in government

WAS Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo merely expressing her personal opinion, or was she doing it in line with her duties as vice president in our government when she told a Reuters reporter the other day that it is time for President Rodrigo Duterte to call off the government’s war on illegal drugs because it is a failure and because it is bad for the country’s international image?

We raise this question because we can find nothing in the Constitution that says the vice president has any role to play in policy-making in our republic.