Practice question
A party leader issues an oral announcement that the President is unable to serve. There is no presidential written declaration and no prescribed written Cabinet-majority transmission. Does this announcement alone trigger Section 11’s specified transfer mechanism?
- Yes, every party announcement is a constitutional declaration.
- Yes, if television stations repeat it.
- No; it is not either of the prescribed written declarations.
- Yes, if the party controls one chamber.
- No, because written declarations are constitutionally prohibited.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VII, Section 11.
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