Published January 12, 2021, 5:43 PM
After blowing hot and cold on bills proposing to amend the 1987 Constitution for over a year now, the leadership of the House of Representatives has finally made up its mind at concentrating on the passage of only one of the 13 pending proposals on Charter change.
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco
(Lord Allan Velasco’s Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Ako Bicol Partylist Rep. Alfredo Garbin disclosed Tuesday that only Resolution of Both Houses 02 authored by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco will be the lone legislative measure that will be discussed in Wednesday morning’s hearing by the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
Published January 12, 2021, 4:54 PM
Even before Congress could make a move to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, prospects of serious legal challenge were swiftly aired against a possible violation by the House of Representatives of the limited amendatory procedure embodied in the Charter.
Independent opposition Rep. Edcel Lagman
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman raised this warning as he assailed Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 for providing for what he termed as a “mongrelized process” of Charter change.
Authored by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, RBH No. 2, in effect, grants Congress the power to amend the Constitution “in violation of the limited amendatory procedure prescribed in Article XVII of the 1987 Constitution,” noted Lagman.
There is a renewed move to amend the Constitution, with Speaker Lord Allan Velasco pushing for his Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 seeking to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, which replaced the Marcos Constitution that, in turn, had done away with the 1935 Constitution.
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Albay Representative Edcel Lagman on Tuesday criticized the measure filed by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco seeking to propose amendments to "restrictive" economic provisions in the Constitution, saying that it provides for a "mongrelized" process for Charter change.