Kamara, maghihintay hanggang Marso sa pagpasa ng Senado sa panukalang pag-amyenda economic provision ng 1987 Constitution
Kamara, maghihintay hanggang Marso sa pagpasa ng Senado sa panukalang pag-amyenda economic provision ng 1987 Constitution
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 The House of Representatives approved the Senate's amendment to the 1987 Constitution
00:07 and the Senate's version of the amendment was respected.
00:12 Rod Laguzad was at the center of the news.
00:15 The House of Representatives will wait until March to pass the Senate's resolution on both Houses No. 6
00:23 or the amendment to the 1987 Constitution.
00:28 This is the next step in the Senate's hearing.
00:31 The House of Representatives said that House Majority Floor Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe
00:36 has been waiting for this opportunity since last year.
00:40 The Senate President, Migsubiri, even gave a timeline that they will pass it this March.
00:46 So, the House, we are patient enough in waiting for them to pass it this March.
00:54 The lawmakers also assured that the proposed amendment to the Senate's economic perversion
01:00 is not political perversion but political perversion.
01:02 Show the document that says that we are pushing for those type of political changes.
01:09 You present.
01:11 We challenge them to go and check the records of the Senate of what we transmitted.
01:18 According to the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments Chairperson Rufus Rodriguez,
01:22 this will be seen as a game changer.
01:24 If they approve the economic amendments to the Constitution,
01:28 there will be no more basis for the people's initiative.
01:32 Our RBA 6 here, really, is only economic amendments, no abolition of the Senate.
01:39 Hopefully, they're going to approve this before the Holy Week.
01:43 We just have some requests to include a final, a total, comprehensive opening of our economy.
01:51 We would like to have, especially, the constitutional provision on the development and exploitation of natural resources.
01:59 Representative Ace Barbers added that they are ready to accept that the Senate will be a version of the Constitution.
02:03 Because the Senate will be the version of the economic amendment to our Constitution,
02:09 therefore, they will be assured that we will not take up any political provision for that matter.
02:16 Before the press conference, party leaders met with House Speaker Martin Romualdez, who followed the caucus.
02:24 Even if our speaker is a bit hurt, his instructions to our fellow House of Representatives
02:35 is not to make the issue bigger.
02:37 Let's just work.
02:40 So that our work will really benefit our citizens.
02:46 The former President Rodrigo Duterte did not agree to the possible change of form of the government.
02:52 That cannot even be done via constituent assembly.
02:55 That can only be done by way of a constitutional convention of representatives elected by the people in a separate election.
03:05 We will not do that.
03:07 It's very clear that this is not in the table.
03:11 I think what we see is the narrative against progress and development is consistent.
03:19 They want to put political color on the constitutional amendments that are being pushed by the House of Representatives.
03:29 When in fact, on the table are purely economic amendments.
03:35 The former President did not even give notice to the amendments that were approved by the people's initiative
03:42 when the Prime Minister said that it is part of the plan of the people's initiative.
03:44 Ani Rodriguez, there is no legal and constitutional basis because it is not in the clown of the people's initiative.
03:50 And when it comes to Duterte's request to separate Mindanao from the Philippines,
03:55 Dalipi said that no one will be beneficial in this.
03:58 In the opinion of Barbers, it is possible to study this idea but there is no time to implement it.
04:04 For Rodriguez, the need for Mindanao is a bond and not independence.
04:09 Meanwhile, the House resolution will eat up the Kamara-Kaug that has become an issue in the Senate.
04:14 Resolution expressing and wavering solidarity and support to the leadership of the Honorable Speaker Ferdinand Martin Gomez-Tumuales
04:23 and the upholding the integrity and honor of the House of Representatives in the face of intense assault from the Senate
04:34 in violation of the principle of the inter-parliamentary courtesy and undue interference in the performance of its legislative and constituent functions.
04:47 Looking at the statement, with due respect to the Senate, sometimes strong statements require strong answers.
04:57 So it is not painful. Strong, yes, but that only shows how serious we take it.
05:06 At present, the content or details of this statement are not yet distributed because this is still a formal request.
05:13 Rod Logosed, Para Sa Bayan.