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Local authority as a mediating force

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | August 27, 2006 - 12:00am

It is unfortunate that the role of local authority in the people’s initiative now lodged with the Comelec has been so trivialized. Critics of Charter change, through their powerful media sponsors, claim that...

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