ANTONIO CONTRERAS

LOYAL supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte, in their earnest attempt to rationalize his move to abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, argue that the President doesn’t need the concurrence of the Senate. In fact, it is not only the six senators who withdrew their votes supporting a resolution asking the President to reconsider, or his spokesman Salvador Panelo, but even many legal luminaries also argue that the crafting of foreign policy is solely a presidential prerogative.

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