MANILA, Philippines — Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio of the unity coalition 1Sambayan reiterated his group’s position that they cannot accept anyone within the “political dynasty” of President Rodrigo Duterte to run under their banner in the 2022 national elections. We are against political dynasties and all of these can be attributed to the president,” Carpio said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel. And of course, President Duterte is the head of this political dynasty and so we cannot accept anyone within that political dynasty to again run this county in the next term,” he added. According to Carpio, the Constitution itself prohibits political dynasty. “We have to take a strong position because there are many political dynasties in the provinces but this one, they will bring the political dynasty to the national level.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 24, 2021 02:44 UTC