Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday described as a “lunatic statement” the views expressed by Interior and Local Governments Undersecretary Epimaco Densing regarding the constitutionality of the revolutionary government and the so-called people’s right to revolt.

“Well, I think that was really a lunatic statement. One, there is no such thing as a right to revolt,” Locsin said in a television interview.

Locsin echoed the position earlier made by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra that the proposal to establish a revolutionary government is “not a matter of law” but a “matter of politics.”

“Now, he’s (Densing) saying a revolutionary government is a right? No, it’s an abrogation of rights. It is the substitution of facts—if you can pull it off successfully—the substitution of facts over of rights,” said Locsin, himself a lawyer who holds a Master of Laws from the Harvard Law School. 

The foreign affairs chief also objected to Densing’s saying that the late President Corazon Aquino declared revolutionary government when she assumed the reins of power after former President Ferdinand Marcos left the country in February 1986.

“No, she did not. She won under the Marcos Constitution. By the way, that gave her two terms. But then she also believed in reading the spirit of her own declaration, one term is enough. So then, he says it was the same. No, it was not,” he explained.

As to what action should be taken against those behind the proposal to establish a revolutionary government, Locsin said: “This is really unique in its insanity. It is a movement, a seditious movement to keep the government. Why would you do that? Why don’t you just form a cheering squad, stand outside the Palace, and clap? Why would you form a movement that you like, a movement that says we like the government, we want the government to stay?”