Aquino Touts New Term as Party Struggles for 2016 Successor
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino may seek changes to the country’s 27-year-old constitution to curtail judicial powers and allow him to seek another term.
“The balance between the three branches seems to be vanishing,” Aquino told local news channel TV5 yesterday, adding that the judiciary is using its powers to check congress and the executive much too often. “The problem now is, there are those who ask: ‘Has it gone too far?’”