MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon questioned on Wednesday the validity of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr.’s designation as spokesperson of the Duterte administration’s anti-insurgency task force while still an active military officer, saying this could be unconstitutional.
Drilon cited Article 16, Section 5, Paragraph 4 of the Constitution which states that “no member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in active service shall at any time be appointed or designated in any capacity to a civilian position in the government.”
To rectify this apparent violation of the Constitution, Drilon said Parlade, who is also the AFP Southern Luzon command chie…
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