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By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 13, 2021 8:25pm The House Committee on Constitutional Amendments on Wednesday resumed its deliberations on the proposed amendments to the restrictive economic provisions to the 1987 Constitution. The said amendments are contained in Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 authored no less than by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco. In resuming the so-called economic Charter change (Cha-cha), both Velasco and House panel chair Alfredo Garbin Jr. had one thing in mind: lifting the restrictions in the economic provisions in the Constitution would help the country rise from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, some critics from both Congress and the public in general questioned the timing of the hearings amid the global health crisis, while others expressed fear that this would only pave the way for the introduction of political amendments to the Constitution like term extension for some elected officials or lifting their term limits.

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