Lower House final push for Cha-cha

With the 2010 election looming and the current 14th Congress about to close, the house of representative makes it final push for a bill seeking to convene a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution by next year.

With time not being on their side Speaker Prospero Nograles has shortlisted a Con-con bill that had been set for second reading before the House went into its long Christmas break.

“The House bill proposes to hold elections for some 303 Con-con delegates at the same time as the barangay elections set for October 2010.

The House has settled for the Con-con mode of constitutional change after the majority bloc failed to railroad the passage of a bill seeking to convene the two chambers of Congress into a constituent assembly that would vote jointly and not separately to amend the Constitution.”

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