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Article: Political dynasties in RP; (Editor's note: The proliferation of political dynasties and avoidance of term limit could not be checked by the appointive Constitutional Commission of 1986 as noted in this article.).(Opinion & Editorial)
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- February 22, 2005
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ITS hard to pinpoint the start of political dynasties in Filipinas that placed clear power in the hands of a few families under a determined patriarch.
Emilio Aguinaldos kin
Emilio Aguinaldo became president of a Revolutionary Government which he organized after June 12, 1898, with great help from lawyer Apolinario Mabini. Before he left for Hong Kong in December 1897, his first cousin Baldomero Aguinaldo was designated secretary of the treasury.
Before the Malolos Congress was convened, he appointed Baldomero as secretary of war in a Cabinet headed by Mabini, 35, as Cabinet president and secretary of foreign affairs.
But Aguinaldo ...