[OPINION ] Flogging a dead horse: Charter change in 2021? Feb 20, 2021 4:00 PM PHT Joel Rocamora Not likely. There is no way proponents can get the three-fourths votes of the Senate. The question is why it is being pushed now in the middle of a pandemic, and 7 months before the filing of candidacies for the 2022 elections in early October. The most determined push is from the House of Representatives. Introduced by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco himself, Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 2 easily passed at the committee level. It is also likely to pass the plenary at the end of February. Anticipating opposition, Velasco said they would only touch the economic provisions of the Constitution, that the two houses would vote separately, and it would only be implemented after the 2022 elections so its proponents would not benefit from the changes.