Separately, Akbayan Rep. Tomasito Villarin said: “Sixty-two percent of Filipinos are not dumb to buy the idea of martial law as good for everyone.”“Even Mindanaoans don’t support [martial law] as it only brings tragedy and pain. It is not martial law that will solve our problems rather it becomes the problem,” Villarin said. The same SWS survey also showed 66 percent of respondents agreed the military can handle security threats even without martial law. For Alejano, the survey disproved the claim of lawmakers that they had to support martial law because of its popular support in Mindanao. At least nine congressmen claimed during the Dec. 13 session that Mindanao folk “generally support martial law,” as Anak Mindanao Rep. Makmod Mending Jr. put it.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 24, 2017 22:52 UTC