Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:31:31 +0000
The proposed federal charter drafted by the House of Representatives, which would lift term limits for elected officials, was a “wholesale act of fraud” against the people, according to election watchdog group Kontra Daya.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:26:50 +0000
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) has strongly opposed the removal of term limits for lawmakers and the ban on political dynasties
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:18:52 +0000
Opposition bet Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III has urged the Senate to maintain its independence amid the House’s approval of charter change.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:35:32 +0000
Led by a supermajority dominated by administration allies, the House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass a resolution to amend the 1987 Constitution.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:33:00 +0000
The draft federal Charter principally authored by Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo “should go straight to the trash bin.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:44:20 +0000
Senators will not let Charter change be raised when the lower and upper chamber convene next week to tackle the possible extension of martial law in Mindanao, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Friday.
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The House of Representatives is already operating as a Constituent Assembly (Con-ass) to modify the 1987 Constitution, constitutional amendments panel chair and Leyte 3rd District Rep. Vicente “Ching” Veloso said Tuesday.
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The move of the House constitutional amendments panel to skip the Vice President as President Rodrigo Duterte’s successor during the transition period towards a federal form of government was done to prevent “instability.”
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The call for a revolutionary government, or “RevGov,” “is the personal opinion of [Interior Undersecretary] Epimaco Densing III and not of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG),” acting Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said in a statement on Saturday.
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Rejecting the reckoning by the country’s lawmakers, Communications Secretary Martin Andanar on Thursday insisted that Charter change (Cha-cha)—not the dance but the government-led movement to revise the 1987 Constitution for a shift to federalism—was not dead.
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