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Ex-Navy officer Rex Robles dies at 75

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/07/05/20180703-constitutional-comm-rex-robles-jc-6817.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Retired Navy Commodore Rex Robles attends a deliberation on the final draft of the proposed Federal Constitution at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News​</figcaption></figure></div>Rex Robles, a retired Navy commodore who once led the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and who became part of President Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s panel to draft a federal constitution, has died.This was confirmed by his wife Marilyn, who said Robles died of cardiac arrest at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.He was 75.Robles was among the military men who plotted a coup against then-President Corazon Aquino. He later apologized to Aquino.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/08/03/09/ex-coup-plotter-says-sorry-cory">Ex-coup plotter says sorry to Cory</a></li></ul>He was also part of the Feliciano Commission, a fact-finding panel that investigated the Oakwood Mutiny of 2003.In 2018, Robles was appointed by Duterte to be part of a panel tasked to review the 1987 Constitution and propose revisions for a federal charter.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/11/18/duterte-appoints-new-members-of-consultative-body-on-charter-change">Duterte appoints new members of consultative body on charter change</a></li></ul>&quot;Great man. May God bless his soul,&quot; retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno, the head of the constitutional review panel, said of Robles in a Viber message to ABS-CBN News

Rex Robles, a retired Navy commodore who once led the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and who became part of President Rodrigo Duterte's panel to draft a federal constitution, has died.

Rex Robles, a retired Navy commodore who once led the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and who became part of President Rodrigo Duterte's panel to draft a federal constitution, has died.