'Mindanao secession no constitutional travesty'

By Catherine S. Valente

Feb 11, 2024 12:15 am

FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte's idea of an independent Mindanao is 'not a travesty of the Constitution,' as it is 'covered by the guarantee of freedom of speech or of expression,' his former top legal counsel Salvador Panelo said Saturday.

Panelo issued the statement after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that calls for a separate Mindanao were 'doomed to fail' for they were 'anchored on a false premise.'

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