Can you believe that under the Constitution, there are many provisions that could combat corruption and pork barrel abuse? Yet by now the Philippines should be one of the top three most corrupt countries in Asia, what with the ongoing pork barrel scandal.
The outrage against abuse of special funds by legislators and the executive has been so widespread and callous it has triggered what Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno calls “several threads of discussion.”
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