(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, maintained the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was void ab initio because it was signed by then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and not by then-President Benigno Aquino III. In his tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said the granting of pardon or amnesty was, after all, “an act of state.” “It cannot be delegated to anybody but to the … president itself..Yung.. Constitution […]