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Senate to conduct Charter change hearings outside Metro Manila

(Eagle News)– Senate President Pro Tempore Franklin Drilon said the Senate constitutional amendments committee will conduct hearings on Charter change (Cha-cha) in other localities outside Metro Manila. The Senate committee, which Drilon chairs, plans to hold hearings in Baguio, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro “to get as wide a spectrum as possible of our people’s views.” The Senate panel held on Thursday its first hearing on proposals to amend some provisions in the 1987 Constitution. […]