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The Constitution itself in this particular section outlaws political dynasties, prohibit political dynasties.

Ang kailangan lamang ay definition kung ano ang political dynasties.

So walang choice ang Kongreso kundi magpasa ng batas laban sa political dynasties.

Ang tanong po, hanggang kailan sila pwedeng magpabanjing-banjing?

Kasi more than 30 years na po, wala pong lumulusot na anti-political dynasties sa Kongreso.

And as early as after the enactment of the Constitution, gumawa na sila ng batas.

Diba? Dapat i-define na lang ang political dynasties up to now, after 37 years, they have not done so.

That's why we have this petition.

Pakiexplain nga po yung Mandamos petition niyo.

Ano ba yung nature niyan kung saan pwedeng i-compel ng hukuman ng isang ahensya ng gobyerno o sangay?

Pwede bang gamitin po yan sa Kongreso?

Pwede po yan.

They're supposed to be doing their job, imperative, mandatory job.

If they have neglected performing their job under the Constitution, then they can be subject to a rate of Mandamos.

Hindi po ba yan pwedeng i-cite ng Kongreso?

Teka, co-equal bodies tayo dito.

Magkapantay tayo, kayo judiciary, kami legislature.

E sino kayo para sabihan kami kung anong dapat namin gawin?

Well, kung ganoon lang ang reasoning nila,

medyo malabnaw yata yun because the Constitution actually commands and orders them to enact a law along that line.

So the supreme document that should compel them is the Constitution itself, not the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court will simply ask them to abide by the constitutional mandate.

E kung hindi po nalagawin?

Well, they'll be probably cited for contempt.

By the Supreme Court?

By the Supreme Court.

Okay. So technically, sino po respondents dito sa inyong petition? House Speaker at Senate President?

Opo, at saka Kongreso itself.

Okay. Can you walk us through the process?

So nag-file kayo ng petition and then magkakommentin po yung respondents and then what else? What will happen?

Then the court will probably call for an oral...

...oral argument at their discretion and perhaps will have to ask us what will be the issues and what are arguments and the Supreme Court, the Honorable Supreme Court, will decide accordingly.

Hopefully, they will take cognizance and give us our petition due course because of its transcendental issue that we have posed and therefore, the Supreme Court will issue a judgment along that line and hopefully, it will be an end-bank decision.

Which is doctrinal in nature.

Doctrinal. Pero pwede rin ba, syempre, dun sa realm of possibilities, pwede ibalik yan, iba to sa Kongreso. Teka, labas kami dyan. Let Congress make that decision, if and when.

Pero kung gagawin natin dun, anong remedy ng mga tao? The sovereign people who enacted and approved the Constitution, the supreme organ of our country.

Pagka yan sa state policy natin, yung Section 26 is one of the 28 or so sections in that particular Article 2 and that is a mandatory, mandatory command of the Constitution itself.

So hindi dapat babaliwalain ng mga branches of the government there. For example, ang Supreme Court has already issued mandatory or a writ of execution...

...against the...

...against the executive branch.

Marami po tayong na-encounter na ganyan.

Why can't the Supreme Court now issue a writ of mandamus against the legislature, commanding it to enact a law as mandated and as imperatively mandated by the Constitution?

To enact a law defining and prohibiting political dynasties.

Atty. May, also, no, no.

Why did you decide, you and your colleagues decided to file this petition?

At this time, ano yung nag-trigger or ano ito, talagang frustrated lang kayo over the years?

Alam mo, Christian, kaming mga magkakaklase, very solid kami, very close kami.

And one of my classmates who is sight impaired, ay nagsabi sa amin, ito pa bang bulag pong namin kaklase, ang nagsabi pa sa amin, si Atty. Wilfrido Trinidad.

At nakita niya.

Nag-37 years na na walang nangyayari dito sa Section 26 Implementation.

Sabi niya, why don't we come up with a petition for a writ of mandamus?

Sabi namin mga magkakaklase, after a reunion somewhere, sabi namin, oo nga, malapit na tayo.

We are already at the last stage of our legal practice.

Hindi ba natin kailangan utang natin sa mga kababayan natin, sa future generations, sa ating mga, ano,

mga anak, nabigyan sila ng heritage na dapat ay magkaroon ng batas na dapat ay sumususog sa constitutionally mandated and imperatively mandated na dapat ay prohibit ang political dynasties.

Alam lang po naman natin kung bakit natin pinaprohibit ang dynasties na talakay na yan.

Sinabi mo nga kanina, meron ng study si Professor or Dr.

Delazal and of course the Ateneo School of Government, itong from fat to obese political dynasties after the 2019 midterm elections.

They are all documented, we have empirical data, Christian, that show that the political dynasties are the root evil, the root cause of the bad governance as well as the underdevelopment of the country.

And we have not done that to prohibit the political dynasties since 1980.

In fact, the records of the Commission, the Constitutional Commission will show that's exactly what is the need for our country.

That's why they inserted that Section 26, included that Section 26, Article 2, sa Constitution.

Oo nga, ano. Kunti background din po dito sa mga viewers natin, ano.

The last time I interviewed one of the members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, si Atty. Christian Monsud, naitanong ko rin po kasi yan, sir, ano.

But kasi hindi niyo paginawang, ano.

Self-executory yung provision na yan.

Bakit iniwan niyo pa yung desisyon sa Kongreso para i-define kung ano ba yung political dynasties para ma-eban sila sa ating politika.

Ang sabi niya, well, they underestimated the greed for power of our politicians.

And true enough, talagang tumaba po ng tumaba yung mga dynasties, no.

Pati nga yung party system natin na hijack and na-bastardize nila.

Ang tanong ko po sa inyo, attorney.

Politically, eh, paano makakapagpasa ng anti-political dynasty law ang isang Kongreso na infested, for lack of a better word, infested by political dynasties?

Because if you think about it, that would be an existential threat to them.

Paano? Would be talagang malaking question mark yan.

For the past 37 years, hindi pa nila ginagawa yan.

But somehow...

Somebody has to compel them.

Because the Constitution is the supreme organ that should be followed.

And it says you should prohibit political dynasties.

Kung hindi nila tinutupad dyan ng Kongreso for whatever reason that you have just stated,

na hindi na self-serving yan, marami siyang conflict of interest sa mga Kongreso

because they're part of the political dynasties themselves,

most of them, if not all,

then ang tao na ang mag-uhusgas sa kanila.

Because the Constitution is the sovereign people's enactment.

Hindi ba ba?

Ang Constitution, ang sovereign people ang gumawa niyan, hindi ang Kongreso.

Sinasabi ng Constitution, dapat i-prohibit ang political dynasties, Christian.

Maliwanag na maliwanag na imperative at mandatory ang command ng Constitution.

At hindi dapat yun ay binabaliwala ng Kongreso.

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