The opposition of six big business groups led by the Makati Business Club to charter change echoes the position of independent-minded members of the House of Representatives against a Constitutional Convention to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Spouses, especially wives, will soon have the option of getting out of an irremediably broken marriage and get a new lease on life with the approval by the House Committee on Population and Family Relations of the bill reinstituting absolute divorce in the Philippines.
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is hallucinating of an increased communist-terrorist menace to be fueled by the approval of the proposed “Human Rights Defenders Protection Act”, according to Albay Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the principal author of the measure.
A technical working group (TWG) chaired by Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman approved on March 2, 2023 the consolidated substitute bill reinstituting absolute divorce in the Philippines.
The deliberations on Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 6 calling for a Constitutional Convention presently conducted by the House of Representatives singly without meeting in joint session with the Senate is patently unconstitutional and must cease immediately.
