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Enrile on INC rally: Sacrifice rule of law?

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January 17, 2025

Are we ready to sacrifice the rule of law?

- By ALEXIS ROMERO

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile raised the question days after religious group Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) held a rally to back President Marcos' stance against impeaching his former ally-turned-arch critic Vice President Sara Duterte.

"There is a bigger question. Can the INC with all its members amend the Constitution or suspend any of its provisions? Are we prepared to discard or sacrifice the value of rule of law for a person or a group of persons?" Enrile said in a Facebook post Wednesday night.

"As a nation and a state, we will incur a very detrimental precedent if we follow the logic implicit in the INC rally that they mounted. Are we prepared and ready to face the long-term consequences of that INC move?" he added.

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