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UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque (File photo) MANILA - UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque has dismissed "imagined fears" that a Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. presidency is a prelude to another dictatorship and martial law era in the country. The anti-Marcos group's "paranoia," Roque said, should stop as institutional safeguards and international mechanisms are in place to deter any sitting Philippine president from ever placing the nation under martial rule. The former presidential spokesman said the 1987 Constitution provides stringent legislative and judicial oversight related to the country's declaration and imposition of martial law. Roque cited the presence of international bodies like the United Nation's Human Rights Council and Human Rights Committee that address human rights issues and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that administers criminal justice to perpetrators of gravest crimes. "Contrary to the disin ....

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