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Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on political accountability Philippines.
Generations of Filipinos have placed extraordinary hopes in personalities promising salvation. Yet poverty, inequality, corruption, and institutional…
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State actors and various political interest groups use huge resources peddling narratives which, for the most part, are effective in amplifying pre-existing…
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The push gained momentum amid the flood control scandal, which Carpio has linked to the broader problem of political dynasties and their control over public…
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Maybe that really is how the Dutertes do family: fierce loyalty, strict privacy.
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Elections let people keep the leaders who do their jobs and remove those who do not.
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A conviction will not erase the Duterte political base or make millions of Duterte supporters disappear from the political landscape.
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Numerous studies show political dynasties, optimizing their power and wealth, are superbugs in our body politic, doing things they are supposedly forbidden to…
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The CBCP backs an anti-political dynasty law after the Supreme Court directed Congress to enforce the constitutional ban on political dynasties.
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Each year of legislative inaction allows political inequalities, patronage and other problems associated with concentrated political power to persist.
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Carpio also said he and other advocates would pursue a people’s initiative to enact what he called a genuine anti-political dynasty law.
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The Supreme Court has ordered Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law, ruling that its 39-year failure to fulfill the constitutional mandate amounted…
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