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Anakalusugan Partylist Rep. Michael Defensor cautioned the House leadership against rushing plenary action on Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 that proposes amendments to certain economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
“I believe that in rushing Cha-cha, the House is putting the cart before the horse. The House should first resolve with the Senate at least two contentious issues,” said Defensor in a statement released Tuesday, February 16.
“One is whether the two chambers need to approve a joint resolution formally convening themselves into a constituent assembly before one or both of them can tackle any amendment proposal.The other issue is whether the two chambers vote separately,” explained Defensor.
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Opinion
The writer is an analyst and commentator.
A grand national dialogue is an urgent imperative because the institutional arrangements designed to serve the people of Pakistan have now become so heavily burdened with the animus of individual and group interests that they are no longer working.
Parliament’s functioning is compromised, to say the least. The judiciary’s hard-won independence and stature has been undermined by scandal and recriminations. The executive can tweet, but it struggles to get things done. The bureaucracy (as an institutional mechanism) is almost completely incapable of operating outside of the ‘rules of business’ that protect individual and occupational group interests at the expense of the Pakistani people. Most worryingly of all, the military, one that has secured peace for this country after more than a decade-long conflict with violent extremists, is seen as politically partisan.
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