MERGED: Charter Change

[FK]

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and i wud agree also to u that con con must be implemented to change our systerm!!!!

that's what i'm saying... that most of the people may want change, but not the way GMA and his allied congressmen thinks.

[jaybhe]

up!!!!!

[grabehbebe]

http://www.tribune.net.ph/

Â* Â* Malacañang yesterday presented the members of the newly formed Charter Change (Cha-cha) Advocacy Commission tasked to promote the shift from the present presidential to a parliamentary form of government.

Â* Â*Under Executive Order 495, the commission will be composed of not more than 15 members, including former members of the Consultative Commission (Con-com), and representatives from the academe and the private sector.
President Arroyo signed the EO on the eve of the Council of State meeting in Malacañang last Jan. 24.
Â* Â* The members include Dean Andres Bautista of the Far Eastern University Institute of Law and the De La Salle University, Atty. Raul Lambino, newspaper columnist Carmen Pedrosa, Atty. Rita Linda Jimeno, Con-com Chairman Jose Abueva, former Con-com Secretary General Lito Lorenzana, former Con-com Deputy Secretary General Atty. Romela Bengzon, Joji Ilagan-Bian, business sector; Ronald Adamat, Liberato Lauz, and newspaper columnist Jarius Bondoc.

Â* Â*According to Con-com chairman emeritus Jose Abueva, the purpose of the Advocacy Commission is to continue the public information and consultation aspect of the Con-com which was started by the Cha-cha body last year, and to focus on the main issues of constitutional change.

Â* Â* He said that there are three main issues that the Advocacy Commission would underscore, namely:

1. Cha-cha is imperative and cannot be delayed any longer;

2. Cha-cha will change our highly centralized unitary system to a much more
Â* decentralized structure of our Republic; and

3. Cha-cha will allow the liberalization of the economy to allow greater Â* Â*
Â* Â*participation of foreign businesses to invest in the country in order to create
Â* more jobs, raise the income of the salaried worker and to improve the
Â* competitiveness of the country vis-Ã*-vis other countries in the region.

Under EO 495, the Office of the Press Secretary and the Philippine Information Agency were also tasked to conduct an information and education campaign on the proposed constitutional change.

The shift from the present unitary structure of government to autonomous territories/federal states is embodied in the Con-com’s proposal to amend the 1987 Constitution that was submitted to Malacañang last Dec. 16. In turn, the President forwarded the proposal to the House of Representatives for consideration and approval.
PNA

[mannyamador]

Looks like someone is getting ready to fake the already unconstitutional "People's Initiative"

Hauling at the Horizon?
From http://www.pcij.org/blog/

March 30, 2006 @ 7:26 pm · Posted by Luz Rimban
Filed under In the News, Charter Change

A SERIES of text messages forwarded to various news organizations yesterday sent reporters
rushing to the Edsa Horizon Hotel (formerly the Byron Hotel) along Edsa in Mandaluyong. They had
been told that mysterious boxes were being hauled into the hotel and delivered to a room (or rooms)
in the 5th floor and contained signed forms that were needed for a people’s initiative to amend the
constitution.

Sources who passed by the hotel yesterday said they saw a man in a barong with a logo of the
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) over his breastpocket pacing the lobby
like a typical aide of a top government executive. Moments later, Director Rolando Acosta, head of
the DILG’s Bureau of Local Government Supervision arrived.

Hotel staff refused to give out any information to reporters, who had apparently also scared off the
DILG bodyguard. But sources say the presence of newsmen was enough to rattle those involved who
were forced to stop whatever it was they were doing.

Acosta has admitted being at the Horizon yesterday, but denied allegations that his presence had
anything to do with alleged secret operations to fill up boxes and boxes of signature forms. Acosta’s
boss, DILG Secretary Ronaldo Puno likewise denied the existence of any such operations.

Today, however, ABS-CBN News has reported that a non-government group called Sigaw ng Bayan
Movement for Charter Change has claimed it has collected 5.6 million signatures and was continuing its drive.

Last year, opposition lawmakers had alleged that political operators of the Arroyo administration had
manufactured fake election returns after the 2004 elections, and that the hub of the operations was the
5th floor of the very same hotel.

[Visual C#]

Hail the New World Order.

[FK]

once a cheater always a cheater... sakto ba? hehehehe...

[iloveyou4ever]

na naman? sus pagka pait ning mga anti PGMA. Mamatay kayo sa inggit!

[FK]

sus pagka pait ning mga anti PGMA. Mamatay kayo sa inggit!

bitaw makasuya jud ang mga taw nga bisan onsa nakatikasan/bakakon sa usa ka taw... makakita gihapon siya sa kahayag... mo too gihapon siya sa mga saad.

[estor_boot]

there is no need to make noise on that cheating issue. anti-ChaCha groups keep claiming that the people's initiative way of charter change does not make sense because of the Supreme Court ruling last 1997.

[tolstoi]

don't let this get into your nerve guys..one function of the senate is to scrutinize the validity of the results that could lead into a futile process, coz they don't want their happy days in the senate to end abruptly.