Answer:

The President says he may issue an executive order requiring ROTC, if it is legal to do so

Explanation:

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte again voiced his determination to make the Reserved Officers Training Corps program mandatory for students.

In a speech on Thursday, November 22, he called on Congress to pass a law which would require ROTC training for grade 11 and 12 students."I likewise encourage Congress to enact a law that will require mandatory ROTC for Grades 11 and 12 so we can instill patriotism, love of country among our youth," he said during the anniversary of the Army Reserve Command in Cavite.The main argument of Cabinet members then had been that with a voluntary ROTC, “discipline and love for country is not instilled” among young Filipinos.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo had then said he would suggest amendments to Republic Act 9163 or the National Service Training Program Act of 2001, which made the ROTC optional and voluntary in 2002.

Yet Duterte claimed in public speeches that he himself has attempted to skip ROTC  as a student.

While an undergraduate at the Lyceum of the Philippines, he supposedly tricked the military registrar by submitting another person's medical documents to prove he was too sickly to take ROTC, thus exempting him from the requirement.