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...herself from Marcos' 1973 constitution. She could then dissolve the National Assembly and dismiss local officials loyal to the former President. The downside of the action is that it would leave Aquino open to charges that her government was nearly as authoritarian as the regime it replaced. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who heads the committee studying the matter, is expected to recommend a course of action this week. He is known to favor the revolutionary route...
...President stressed that she would retain all the rights guaranteed in the 1973 constitution (among them freedom of speech and assembly). The infamous Amendment Six, which allowed Marcos to claim emergency powers under martial law, was rendered moot because the proclamation gives Aquino full legislative powers. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who helped frame the provisional constitution, pronounced the new government "revolutionary in origin, democratic in essence and transitory in character...
...millions continued, President Corazon Aquino presided over a three-hour Cabinet meeting that failed, once more, to resolve the question of whether her technically illegal regime would be declared revolutionary, a move that some Aquino advisers fear would give the new government a dangerously authoritarian cast. Later, Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales said that Aquino intends to avoid further discussion of the issue. Instead, early this week she is likely to form a provisional government and announce plans for a new constitution, a return to a bicameral legislature, and local and parliamentary elections within one year...
...Threatened with Death if he did not resign within 48 hours, President-elect Neptali Bonifaz of Ecuador was still alive last week, 48 hours later, and had not resigned...
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