The “war” against the 1987 Constitution has been launched from two fronts – one from the House of Representatives through people’s initiative by specifically making the voting procedure in the Constituent Assembly as joint voting collectively by Representatives and Senators, and not separately by the two Chambers; and the second is from the Senate through amendments by a Constituent Assembly with the House and Senate voting separately.
I warmly congratulate Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto on his appointment as Secretary of Finance. He brings with him a vast knowledge and experience in financial and economic matters.
On the question whether the Constituent Assembly must vote separately by Chamber or jointly among the Representatives and Senators, I am not changing my position that there must be a joint voting because the Members of the Congress are not acting as legislators but as members of a constituent assembly where one member is entitled to one vote individually and not through their respective Houses, as impliedly held in Gonzales vs. Comelec (G.R. No. 192856, March 8, 2011).
The “EDSA-pwera” charter change ad campaign is part of the Marcos family’s continuing demonization of the Edsa People’s Power Revolution which ousted the Marcos dictatorship and helped install the “Cory Constitution” or the present 1987 Philippine Constitution.
Rep. Elizaldy Co, Chairman of the House committee on appropriations and co-chair of the bicameral conference committee on the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), must stop calling me names and becoming personal but must stick to the facts and the truth that P12-B was inserted by the bicameral conference committee in the 2024 Comelec’s budget for “plebiscites”, among others, related to the charter change agenda.
