MANILA, Philippines — They’ve warned of a doable constitutional disaster, and it’s “slowly occurring.”
So it looks as if, in keeping with Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri.
“We now have warned a few doable constitutional disaster and tried to keep away from it. However sadly, plainly that is slowly occurring,” Zubiri stated in an announcement on Friday.
“We hope this disaster will probably be averted quickly,” he stated.
Zubiri made the comment after receiving a letter from Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez reiterating the Home of Representatives’ full help for a Senate-led Constitution change bid.
Zubiri himself filed Decision of Each Homes No. 6, proposing modifications to particular financial provisions of the 1987 Structure.
He stated the Senate would reply to Romualdez’s letter on Monday.
“As for his suggestion of another individuals’s initiative emanating from the Senate, there have been no discussions on this,” he stated in an announcement.
“We consider that any authentic individuals’s initiative should be genuinely led by the individuals,” the Senate chief added.
Zubiri underscored the Senate’s place that the continued individuals’s initiative is “flawed and unconstitutional,” given “its present type and the way the signatures are being collected.”
He stated senators would suppose over choices obtainable to them to uphold the checks and balances enshrined within the Structure by a bicameral legislature.
“We stay vigilant for our nation and for our individuals,” the Senate chief added.