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(Eagle News) — Senator JV Ejercito on Wednesday warned against railroading the planned shift to a federalist form of government. In a Twitter post, he said that a process that would “fundamentally alter our system of government” should, after all, not be expedited. Ejercito added that “the most important issue” for him was that Congress also vote separately on the issue. “I am not prepared to support a process that would diminish the power and […]
(Eagle News) — Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman on Thursday said that once Congress convenes to amend the 1987 Constitution via a constitutional assembly, it will become a “virtual rubberstamp” of President Rodrigo Duterte. “With the projected constituent assembly principally composed of Duterte’s dyed in the wool allies, what the President wants as amendments or revision will be delivered with alacrity and minimal debate,” he said in a statement. He said that this “imprudent fast tracking […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday reiterated what he said was the need to change the unitary type of government, saying there would be “no peace” in Mindanao if this was not done. In his speech before the Philippine Development Forum: Sulong Pilipinas 2017 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, Duterte, however, thumbed down a constitutional convention (con-con) to make the needed amendments in the 1987 Constitution, or Charter Change (Cha-Cha), for […]
