IT is not the fact that a former president, or in this case, a soon-to-be former president, would run for elective office. We had the spectacle of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo running for a House seat in Pampanga, winning and eventually even becoming the House speaker.
It may appear that nothing in the Constitution bars former presidents from doing so. In fact, if they want, they can even run for vice president although Sen. Richard "Dick" Gordon asserts that the wording in the 1987 Constitution barring an incumbent to run for "any reelection" actually prohibits it.
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