Published March 7, 2021, 12:11 PM
This early, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is putting the blame on the Makabayan Bloc in the House of Representatives if the country continues to plunge into economic woes that would, it said, to ‘more suffering’ of the Filipino people.
DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya
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Why? Because according to DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya, they have been consistently opposing the economic amendments in the 1987 Constitution.
“The so-called Makabayan Bloc opposes the lifting of the restrictive economic provisions in our constitution because they adhere to their own so-called ‘national industrialization program’ where the electric, water, mining, oil, telecommunications and transportation industries, among others, are to be confiscated from their owners and taken over by the State as dictated by their obsolete ideology,” said Malaya.
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Published February 16, 2021 10:02am Anakalusugan party-list Representative Mike Defensor on Tuesday said the House of Representatives should resolve first with the Senate two issues about the proposal to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution rather than rushing it. I believe that in rushing Cha-cha, the House is putting the cart before the horse. The House should first resolve with the Senate at least two contentious issues, Defensor said in a statement. One is whether the two chambers need to approve a joint resolution formally convening themselves into a constituent assembly before one or both of them can tackle any amendment proposal. The other issue is whether the two chambers vote separately, he added.