Retired Supreme Court
Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio is hitting the headlines again and is
saying that Filipino voters in 2022 must elect political leaders who will
“assert and preserve” the country’s rights in the West Philippine Sea.
“We have to make this
an election issue in 2022,” the retired justice said at an online forum.
The future leaders of the country should be
able to assert the arbitral ruling which declared the nine dash line theory of
China which claims the entire South China Sea, Carpio said.
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| Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio (photo credit to owner) |
Current Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte has been openly criticized for setting aside the arbitral
ruling against China’s nine dash line claiming different territories in the
entire South China Sea.
China from the very
start has refused to recognize such ruling, and as a matter of fact continues
to do expansive activities while the rest of the countries in this part of the
world is very busy with the global pandemic brought about by the novel
coronavirus 2019 disease or COVID-19.
Carpio said the current administration simply “does not want to
displease China.”
“Malaysia government and Vietnamese government are
now willing to sign an agreement with the Philippine government that in the
Spratlys, there are no geologic features that generate an EEZ, all territorial
seas,” he said.
“That would be in consonance with the ruling if we
sign that agreement. We will fortify the ruling by signing that. But our own
government does not want to sign that because that will displease China,”
Carpio said.
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