Roxas denies ties with group pushing for Aquino’s term extension
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II distanced himself on Tuesday from the group pushing for President Benigno Aquino III’s second term through a constituent assembly that would amend the 1987 Constitution and lift the single-term limit on presidents.
“I don’t have anything to do with it,” Roxas told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, after speaking at the Liga ng mga Barangay (village) regional assembly at the Royal Mandaya Hotel here.
“That’s the initiative of some individuals. That’s all I can say. I actually only learned it from you,” he said.
The Movement for Reform Continuity and Momentum or More2Come placed full-page ads in major dailies calling for 8 million signatures for President Aquino’s reelection bid.
Melvin Matibag, a former government official and Ricojudge “RJ” Echeverri, the son of Caloocan Rep. Recom Echeverri, a Liberal Party member, emerged as the lead convenors of the group.
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