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The SC in fact saw this argument being raised in the future. A briefer on the SC ruling declared: “Reasons such as election fatigue, purported resulting divisiveness, shortness of existing term, and/or other superficial or farcical reasons, alone, may not serve as important, substantial, or compelling reasons to justify the postponement of the elections.
The only reason the SC allowed the holding of the BSKE on the last Monday of October last year, even if RA 11935 had been struck down and declared a “transgression on the people’s right of suffrage,” was because the high tribunal recognized the “legal practicality and necessity” of proceeding with the electoral exercise.
The latest plot twist between the Philippines and China might just as well be a scene from an edge-of-your-seat espionage movie straight out of the Cold War era, where acts of spying and gathering information on...