A large number of major business organizations, which are pushing for government transparency and ease of doing business in the country, have expressed concern over calls by the Ombudsman to abolish the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), which is mandated under a law to facilitate ease of doing busines
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The consultative committee, tasked with drafting a new constitution, eyes the removal of the impeachment power of Congress over justices of the Constitutional Court, one of the proposed three Supreme Courts under the draft charter.
READ: Concom eyes 3 supreme courts
Concom proposes that the impeachment of justices in Constitutional Court be decided instead by the 15-member Supreme Court.
The proposed Constitutional Court will have a presiding justice appointed by the Supreme Court and six associate justices with two appointees each from three branches of government.
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— with Edu Punay