Cayetano urged to resign first after 'unconstitutional' snap polls proposal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The Commission on Elections (Comelec) itself has likewise ruled out Cayetano's proposal as impossible under current laws.
56% : Two political analysts have also noted that Cayetano made no explicit commitment to resign himself, despite calling leadership "about stewardship, not self-preservation.
52% : " Rye added that while Cayetano may mean well, his idea ignores what Filipinos' more concrete demand for government reform.
50% : "The solution is accountability and reform of the system, not extra-constitutional shortcuts," he said.
47% : He added that the current fixed terms were spelled out by the 1987 Constitution to prevent the concentration of power that existed under the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., who called snap elections in 1986 under a super-presidential parliamentary system.

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