voters or jean and seen us. franco is an associate professor at the department of political science for the university of the philippines deal, man, she joins us live now from kay's on city in the philippines. thanks very much for being with us. so what do you, you make this decision then? is this a way for him to sidestep the constitution and remain in power? yes, definitely. and i think mrs. strongest challenge to the not sure that we have gained since the ouster of mark, what's the 1900? 86. so what can be done to push back against that? well, i think now opposition should manage to unite and fight. i mean have a single candidate so that you know, they can consolidate all their resources to prevent their, their, from, from winning. how i mean, given what's, what's happened over the last few years in the time that, that he has been president. how, how strong you think are the, the institutions in the philippines right now. when all these me, the very bad ministration has not showed has not shown any restraint in terms of expanding their, their power. and it's, it's unfortunate that we, you know, he's, our administrati

he's an associate professor of the department of political science at the university of the philippines dilemma. she said to chad, se is relentlessly trying to hold onto power. obviously, the very bad ministration has not showed has not shown any restraint in terms of expanding their, their power. and it's, it's unfortunate that we've, you know, his entire administration has been a, a check back in terms of consolidating our democracy. he talks like a regular guy, he talks in non technocratic language, that music, it's very well to his base and he's, he's a popular so he likes to, to tell people what they want to hear. it's unfortunate that the war on drugs seems to be something that generally, generally, filipinos have been very supportive or maybe because the stigma there's a huge big ma against drug addicts in the philippines, even in low income communities. nowhere a lot of the extra judicial killings have transpired. so it's, it's unfortunate, but i think that is the way the group was on drugs has been the linchpin or the amcor and which his administration admin in administration h

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