MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday said he does not see any violation of the 1987 Constitution in the designation of Southern Luzon Command chief Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as the spokesperson of the Duterte’s administration’s anti-insurgency task force.
The Senate has recommended the immediate relief of Parlade as the spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), saying his designation is a violation of the Constitution.
The Senate cited Article 16, Section 5, Paragraph 4 of the Constitution which states that “no member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in active service shall at …
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