Speaker Martin Romualdez said that while the lower chamber was in a rush to amend restrictive economic provisions in the constitution, it also had no plan of “slowing down or relaxing” in legislating measures. /PDI
“The House has no control over the executive agencies tasked to implement the three laws by issuing implementing rules and regulations,” he added. “He should give us, his former colleagues in the House of Representatives, and executive officials some good faith.”Zubiri earlier expressed suspicion that the delay in the approval of the final enforcing guidelines for the Public Service Act, Retail Trade Liberalization and the Foreign Investment Act could be due to the Cha-cha push.
“Are they delaying [the approval of IRR] for some underlying reason? Why don’t they let the IRR go and let it out so that more direct foreign investments can come to the country,” Zubiri asked in a TV interview. Zubiri earlier downplayed assurances by House lawmakers that constitutional amendments would be limited to “restrictive” economic provisions, saying that there was no stopping Con-con delegates from taking up political provisions as well. He has also repeatedly stressed that there was not enough senators backing Cha-cha at the moment.
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