When those who assure the public that what will be tinkered are merely the economic provisions, we are left at the mercy of their words and promises. Reliance on these legally hollow pronouncements will prevent us from holding Congress into account, should it decide to run amok.
Early in the most recent attempt to modify the Constitution, it has already earned the ire of senators and members of the House alike, because of the statements of Rep. Alfredo Garbin, Jr, the Chair of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, that the said Committee itself has already constituted, if not already automatically equivalent, as the Constituent Assembly contemplated in the Constitution.
The failure of the Duterte administration to institutionalize long-term reforms, such as the change toward federalism, is a symptom of a public trust deficit – or the Filipino people simply are just not yet ready to commit to said reform. The administration, in its track record for the past 5 years, has lost any credibility to push for a change that is as drastic as charter change.charter change is a salvage of what political muscle is left with the Duterte administration.
As Filipino citizens, the sheer grandiosity of the political bureaucracy that revolves around charter change would tend to make us distant to the very process itself. Our affirmations and oppositions, or support and sentiments, may be included in the record or minutes of congressional deliberations, but may not be necessarily heard. But one thing is sacredly reserved to the people: that whatever Congress as Constituent Assembly proposes, only we can accept or reject.
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