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TAGUIG CITY, March 8 (PIA) The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) today said the opposition of the so-called Makabayan Bloc in Congress to the economic amendments in the 1987 Philippine Constitution is based on an impractical and outdated economic model that would lead to higher unemployment and suffering for many Filipinos.
“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 DILG Spokesperson and Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya.
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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AKO BICOL Party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr. , chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, stressed significance of passing Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 that seeks to amend economic provisions of the Charter.
RBH No. 2 is authored by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco.
Garbin was joined by Albay Rep. Joey Sarte-Salceda, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means , and Deputy Minority Leader and Marikina City Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo in delivering sponsorship speeches batting for the adoption of the measure.
In his sponsorship speech, Garbin argued that “it is wise for Congress to amend the Constitution by adding the phrase ‘unless otherwise provided by law’ in order to give the government enough flexibility to consider different circumstances prevailing at different stages our road to economic development before formulating policies that should be time bound.”
Responding positively to President Duterte’s call, the House of Representatives on Monday completed from second to final reading its approval of COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act 2021 that would help guarantee swift procurement of vaccines against the dreaded novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).