After Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said that proponents of Charter change, did not not have the 18 votes needed to pass any legislation on amending the Constitution, House leaders pinned their hopes on Senator Robinhood Padilla to make their case.
The senator, who was elected to his first Senate term by more than 26 million votes last May, invited his House counterpart, Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, to appear at the hearing of his committee on the Cha-cha issue on Monday and Wednesday.
But Padilla insisted on echoing previous reasons to amend the 36-year-old Charter: that supposedly restrictive economic provisions prevented foreign investments from coming into the country. “I want the congressmen to talk freely about their amendments and for the senators to ask them questions why they are insisting [on] those changes,” Padilla added.
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