The inordinate fast-tracking of the approval by the House of Representatives of the concurrent resolution calling for a Constituent Assembly to recommend the shift to a federal system by amending the 1987 Constitution confirms the critical view that the supermajority will railroad charter change.

The leadership of the House with the support of the supermajority is addicted to expediting the approval of bills and resolutions without affording dissenting Representatives the full opportunity to ventilate their opposition.

The ConAss resolution was summarily approved even as many more solons were registered and lined up to interpellate.

The House has been transformed from a deliberative assembly to a rubberstamp of the President.

What happens now in the House will certainly happen in the projected Constituent Assembly composed of the supermajority blindly allied with the President.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN