A week after President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. declared Charter change as not being a priority, a panel in the House of Representatives decided that it would go the Constitutional convention route should the measures to amend the 1987 Charter prosper.
A week after President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. declared Charter change as not being a priority, a panel in the House of Representatives decided Monday, Feb. 20 that it would go the Constitutional convention route should the measures to amend the 1987 Charter prosper.
Upheld by the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments following a vote on Monday afternoon was a committee report favoring the use of a con-con in connection with resolutions seeking a Cha-cha. The voting took place during the Rodriguez panel’s seventh public consultation-slash-hearing on pro-Cha-cha measures filed in the curent 19th Congress.
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