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00:00 Some businesses are worried about the opening of their businesses due to the rise of foreign businessmen.
00:06 The Camera plans to finish their deliberation on the resolution of both houses number 7 before the holy week break.
00:13 We have the first news, Tina Panganiban Perez.
00:16 If the plebiscite for the charter change in the election 2025 will be held at the same time,
00:24 a congressman believes that Congress must approve the resolution of both houses for the economic amendments before November.
00:34 It is in the Constitution that the Commission on Elections or COMELEC must hold a plebiscite from the 60th to the 70th day after the approval of the amendments.
00:46 It will be included in the time frame of the May election next year, around November or December this year.
00:55 But if you're going to ask me, is it legal, possible, that it will be included next year, it can be.
01:03 Economical at that.
01:05 Gonzales is confident that the RBH 7 will be approved by the Camera before the holy week break on March 23, according to the Senate.
01:14 I think there's a time.
01:16 It's already included.
01:18 It's only March.
01:20 There are many months before October.
01:23 So there are many opportunities to plan the details.
01:29 But what we're talking about is to bring it to the floor before December for the debates of the entire Senate.
01:37 On the third day of the deliberation of the Committee of the Whole House, the opening of public utilities such as electricity and water to the farmers was discussed.
01:46 According to the former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio, it is not the Constitution that should blame the low-income population of the country,
01:55 but the expensive electricity, bureaucratic regulations, lack of rule of law, and lack of infrastructure.
02:02 But if the recommendation of Carpio should be amended,
02:07 I propose that the amendment should read as follows, and I quote,
02:11 "Unless otherwise provided by law, subject to reciprocity,"
02:17 and two-thirds vote of all the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.
02:22 Reciprocity is fair and equitable to Filipinos and foreign investors alike,
02:27 because if we open our public utilities and other industries to 100% foreign ownership,
02:33 Filipinos must likewise be able to own 100% of the same public utilities and industries in the countries of these foreign investors.
02:43 Is it a risk to open public services to foreigners?
02:49 If China holds, for example, the big generation or distribution utilities,
03:00 and there's a slight disturbance in the West Philippine Sea, it will block out the Luzon and we will sink in China.
03:06 This is the first news. Tina Panganiban Perez for GMA Integrated News.
03:11 Yes.
03:12 Thank you.
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03:28 [Music]