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Hse passed Reso on Cha-cha via con-con
By Nidz Godino
"We need additional investments that would create more job and income
opportunities for our people…we need increased capital to sustain our
economic growth momentum," House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) 6 which calls for constitutional convention (con-con) to amend 1987 Constitution.
RBH No. 6 received 301 yes votes, six no votes and one abstention.
Speaker Martin Romualdez said House aimed to limit Charter change (Cha-cha) initiative to economic provisions of constitution "to attract more foreign investments."
RBH No. 6 is principally authored by Romualdez, Majority Leader Manuel Jose
"Mannix" Dalipe, Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte, Kapatiran Party, and Cagayan de Oro Representative Rufus Rodriguez, chair of House
Committee on Constitutional Amendments. "With this great number, we can now be likened to 300 Spartans that made last stand in Battle of Thermopylae," Rodriguez said.
RBH No. 6 states con-con with delegates will be elected to draft new constitution, "would be most transparent, exhaustive, democratic, and least divisive means of implementing constitutional reforms."
Villafuerte said there would be no dramatic increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows unless Constitution's restrictive economic provision on limited participation of overseas investors is lifted.
"There's lot of idle land in the country…we need foreign capital and foreign technology to harness such idle lands. ..so in order to have more foreign capital flowing into the country, we should allow ownership as part of menu for investors," he stressed.
Opposition lawmakers said Cha-cha should be phased out, not traditional public utility jeepneys (PUJs) for modernization program.
"Charter change is not what people need…we need to address problems of our PUJ drivers, and workers' demand for increased wages,
Castro said in an interview.
"This Cha-cha is out of tune, and yet, leadership is decisive in pursuing this. .. appears to have President's support, even if he says otherwise," Castro added.
In separate statement, Makabayan bloc lawmakers said it would be the height of callousness and insensitivity for House to continue deliberating on Cha-cha that is not even among top concerns of Filipinos while commuters are stranded and drivers are to go jobless.
"To be more proactive, we suggest Congress should instead use session days during transport strike to deliberate on what measures can be done to support drivers and operators as well as alleviate transportation problems of our country," they concluded.
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