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Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla wants the Senate-ratified Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to benefit Filipino farmers. Padilla, however, maintained that amending the restrictive economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution should be the key to achieving this. He said th
House Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera (Facebook) “If economic Charter reforms won’t push through this time, there’s no guarantee it will happen in the future,” the Bagong Henerasyon lawmaker said “This is the moment we have all been waiting for. It’s time to amend the restrictive economic constitutional provisions that have held back the country’s development for more than three decades,’’ she added. Herrera made the statement as she rallied support for Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 2, which is up for plenary debates this coming week. L...
A resolution seeking amendments to ‘’restrictive’’ economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution may be a Trojan horse that will open the floodgates to more revisions, including extension of terms.
Timing is an important factor in any move to amend the 1987 Constitution, preferably at the start of the one-time, six-year tenure of any Philippine president.