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WHILE it may be good to help people withdraw their signatures from supposed “ayuda” (government assistance) forms that were actually for a people’s initiative drive for Charter change, the Commission on Elections should simply stop all actions related to any people’s initiative because the Supreme Court has “permanently enjoined” it…
DESPITE the Commission on Elections’ position that the signature-gathering option can continue while the poll body suspends acceptance of the signature sheets, the People’s Initiative to amend the Constitution “is completely dead,” contends veteran election lawyer Romulo Macalintal. “The much talked about move to amend the 1987 Constitution through People’s…
SENATORS on Tuesday heard testimonies from barangay and other local officials confirming their worst fear: that the controversial People’s Initiative (PI) signature drive to amend the Constitution is not grassroots-originated but politician-driven, and attended by apparent bribery. A marathon hearing by the Senate Electoral Reforms Committee, chaired by Sen. Imee Marcos,…
ADVOCATES for the people’s initiative (PI) have successfully gathered signatures from 12.1 percent of voters, surpassing the required threshold for a direct constitutional amendment, House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Joey Sarte Salceda claimed on Wednesday. A day after all 24 senators endorsed a manifesto rejecting the ongoing alleged…
ELECTION lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Monday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to stop receiving signature sheets in support of a people's initiative to amend the Constitution.