MERGED: Charter Change

[dawn runner]

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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Thursday she would call a national convention next year to change the constitution and the Philippines' form of government to help raise its economic growth rate.
Arroyo said she believed a federal, parliamentary form of government would be more effective in enacting reforms than the current unitary, US-style presidential system with a bicameral legislature.

The charter was last changed in 1987.

"Next year, when Congress opens, I plan to propose the holding of a constitutional convention that will propose to change the form of government to a parliamentary system and the transition to a federal form of government," Arroyo said on local television.
The proposed change was part of the government's medium-term economic development plan, she said.

Arroyo, who won a full six-year term in last year's elections after succeeding the deposed leader Joseph Estrada following a military-backed popular revolt in 2001, had earlier backed down on calls to change the charter after the opposition charged it could be used to prolong her presidency.

Government economists have also said that the existing constitution is not attuned to the market-based economy and gives too much power to the judiciary, which can effectively scuttle the executive's economic policies.

The constitution bars foreign participation in key businesses and limits a president to a single six-year term.

Hastang baga-a. . .

Di gyud matagbaw si GMA until 2010, mohirit gyud hangtud sa hangtud mora ra ba gyud ug giganahan ang mga Pinoy niya. She will run for Prime Minister and rule this already damaged country ad infinitum.

She has an unsatiable greed for power. Why cant she leave us alone. There are others better than her!

[tolstoi]

its time to shift our government to PARLIAMENTARY so that our economy can progress...to those who opposes on this change and doesn't want our country to rise are nothing but a bunch of CRABS!

[darkwing]

I am.....Mr. Crab

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

and a crybaby .

[estor_boot]

Di gyud matagbaw si GMA until 2010, mohirit gyud hangtud sa hangtud mora ra ba gyud ug giganahan ang mga Pinoy niya. She will run for Prime Minister and rule this already damaged country ad infinitum.

faeta. unhan man daan. bai gusto man kaha tag asenso?

there is a need for a charter change, even the church is supporting this call.

[FK]

let's talk the pros and cons of having a parliament form of government.

[hala tindak jud]

cha cha? mao man ni di bah?

una may beneficiary ani kung ipatuman ni nato? kinsa man ang naa sa poder ani? unsa may dagway nato ani? d bah prehas ra ni ghapon, tho na change kunuhay pero ang mga players mao ra ghapon. ambot lang kaha kay wala pa man ni napatuman pero kung mao lang ghapon ang manuwa mas maayo ilisan hasta ang dagway sa duwa.

sa pag-usab sa constituion, magkinahanglan na usab kuta ug dugang pinansya.
makatubag ang admin kaha ani?

kung unsa kaha unahon kaha nalang nila ang

Trabaho
Yuta sa mag-uuma
Edukasyon para sa tanan
Katungod nga mabuhi
ug Serbisyong pinaka batakan (basic)

Kung usa ana ilahang unahon, cguro naay gamay mahimo cla, apan bsan gamay aduna ba silay nairog?

Kung ako pasulti-on, hinanggaw ang cha cha!

[hala tindak jud]

its time to shift our government to PARLIAMENTARY so that our economy can progress...to those who opposes on this change and doesn't want our country to rise are nothing but a bunch of CRABS!

bunch of crabs...ambot lang kaha bai noh, pero maghisgot man gd ta dre ug politka, ekonomiya ug labi na kultural nga pag-usab. dili ni sayon sayon, asa man kuno ta ug pundo ani?

tubaga sa kuno ko.

kitang tanan nagkinahanglan og progress, kinsa man gud ang dili, pero kanang posible, wala pa gani ta nahuman sa pagsulbad sa gaatubang nga kalisod mo deal na sd ta ug lain, unsa man ang kasigurohan kuno ani.

please answer my question para ma clear atong mga hunahuna bah.

[poldopunk]

sige lang saway mga tawo, wala <b>SUPORTA</b>! TSK!

[FK]

una ta mo supporta... dapat ato man sab tan-awon ang pros and cons d ba?

dili man ta kiko nga kong onsa isulti tuo dayon.