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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 c...

Published January 8, 2021 5:31pm There are other ways to remove party-list groups with alleged links to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, New People’s Army (NPA) instead of amending the 1987 Constitution, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Friday. Lacson said taking the charter change route “might be too big a bite to take,” . . . “if indeed true that the President’s reason for reviving efforts to amend the charter is to abolish the party-list system, or at least directed at particular party-list list groups.” “When we open the valve to amend the ...

Removing the party-list system in the 1987 Constitution will not address the problem of communist rebellion in the country but would only deprive the poor and the marginalized of representation in Congress.