(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Sept. 8, said there was “no provocation”  when President Rodrigo Duterte said no one should question his authority to pardon criminals. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte was merely “educating the public of the nature of the power of pardon.” “The framers of the Constitution gave the pardoning power to the President as a discretionary and absolute power. Nobody can –and should –question that power,” Panelo said. […]