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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.
The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it prefers the Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) mode of amending the ‘’restrictive’’ economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
(MANILA BULLETIN) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, executive director of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Constitutional Amendments, stressed this in today’s first public hearing by the Senate constitutional amendments committee chaired by Senator Francis Pangilinan on proposals to amend the ‘’restrictive’’ economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution and other provisions. ‘’The lifting of the restrictive economic provisions would allow us to have an adaptable economic policy regime in this crucial period in our nation’s history rather than being tied down to a set of fixed set o...
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.