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What could be the real reasons behind the advance oath-taking today of vice president-elect Sara Duterte, 11 days before June 30, the date set by the Constitution for the simultaneous start of the six-year terms of the nation’s two top executives?

The filing this week with the Supreme Court of a last-ditch petition to prevent presumed president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. from taking his oath on June 30 conjured up various possible scenarios.

A US-based Filipino lawyer who is also the dean of Northwestern University College of Law has dismantled the issues raised in each of the seven petitions to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy of presidential aspirant Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr. Atty. Emmanuel Samonte Tipon wrote an opinion piece providing legal arguments…