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When is divorce a divorce?

For Senate bet, lawyer Lorna Kapunan, divorce means divorce and it shouldn't be called any other way.

"I have this concept that if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck, f*cks like a duck, it is a duck," said Kapunan, drawing cheers from students attending The Rundown 2016: An ANC leadership forum at the University of the Philippines Diliman on Friday.

ANC host Karen Davila had to remind Kapunan that she was on live TV.

Kapunan was reacting to a statement made by another Senate hopeful, Susan Ople, who suggested an expansion of the current annulment law instead of allowing divorce in the Philippines.

"It's the word divorce, it's the concept of divorce. I am in favor of looking at the annulment law and seeing where we can have our own that's culturally suited," Ople said.

Ople, who had her marriage annulled in 1999, refused to call divorce as divorce.

"I think when you say the word divorce, there's a stigma attached to it, in our culture. I think I'm in favor of looking at it the Filipino perspective, looking at how even when you grant an annulment and broaden the reason for granting so, you can keep the children safe and secure; yung Filipino values paano mo maipasok doon," said Ople.

By definition, divorce is the dissolution or termination of marriage. Philippine laws, as stated in Article 48 of the Family Code, meanwhile, define annulment as "declaration of absolute nullity of marriage."

READ: How much does annulment cost?

The debate is an initiative of the ANC and the UP Economics Society.