“EDCA is just the enhancement of that capacity as joint exercises are envisioned to do. This policy was reaffirmed in the Visiting Forces Agreement. The EDCA just further implements the policies already agreed. Thus, the EDCA does not need ratification,” said Defense Undersecretary Pio Lorenzo Batino, EDCA chief negotiator for PH.
As indicated by Batino there is no new bargain that was made, further, EDCA is not changeless and has a close. This assention will just proceed the execution approaches set onward by the Mutual Defense Treaty. EDCA is a protection assention not a political understanding.
Congressperson Miriam Defensor-Santiago, seat for Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, says EDCA may have abused a few procurements in the constitution and it needs to be endorsed in the Senate before execution.
"By the stroke of a pen, through the EDCA, the Aquino government cedes all of Philippine sway to the US and makes us peons in our own particular nation. This assention is exceptionally unequal and is amazingly disadvantageous [to] Filipino interest," said in a determination request a Congressional test put together by Neri Colmenares (Bayan Muna), Carlos Zarate (Bayan Muna), and Antonio Tinio (ACT-Teachers).
Then again, Senate President Franklin Drilon said it is dependent upon the Supreme Court if senate movement or sanction is required. In the event that EDCA is announced as a protection (Executive) assention then senate mediation is unnecessary, in any case, on the off chance that it is a bargain senate needs to intercede.
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