Philippine Constitutional Crisis Turns Messy
The campaign by President Benigno S. Aquino III against his rival and predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is broadening into a messy affair in which Aquino apparently has declared war on the country’s Supreme Court in his attempt to bring her to justice.
On Monday, opponents charged, Aquino engineered an overwhelming 188-member majority of the 284-memb…
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