It's time to negotiate with China on a joint oil and gas exploration at the disputed West Philippine Sea (WPS) like businessmen, Senator Robinhood Padilla said on Thursday, July 28. This "businessman approach" entails that 60 percent of the sharing agreement would go to China because it has...
Senator Robinhood Padilla today sought a radical foreign investment entry process to spur the economy by deleting the constitutional 60-40 investment sharing provision in the 1987 Constitution. “Kailangan nating baguhin ang saligang batas (We need to amend the Constitution). Hanggat di nababago...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos assured on Monday, July 4, that the renewed campaign against illegal drugs will follow due process and the rule of law. “This will be sustained in accordance with the oath I made as provided for in the...
Outgoing President Duterte on Thursday recommended the abolition of the party-list system in the country and advised his successor to call for changes in the Constitution. Duterte made the appeal as he repeated his allegations that some party-list groups are infiltrated by the communists and that...
President Duterte said it is during the administration of the late President Corazon Aquino that the rich started to use the party-list system to get elected to Congress. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Arcadia Active...
Vice presidential aspirant Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan said he would not touch the 1987 Constitution to give the vice president more power or responsibility even though the post is considered a spare tire if something happens to the sitting president. Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan...
Pampanga 3rd district Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr., the congressman who pitched giving a Philippine president a maximum of two five-year terms, wants to know if the Palace aspirants in May 2022 favor his proposal. (Photo from Aurelio "Dong" Gonzales Jr.'s Facebook) In a statement Friday,...
Honoring the Filipino on the 123rd anniversaries of the Malolos Constitution and the First Philippine Republic By Dr. Pablo S. Trillana III BODY OF LAW General Aguinaldo (seated, center) and 10 delegates to the first assembly that passed the constitution, in Barasoain Church, Malolos. Dec. 8 1929...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is urging his fellow lawmakers to defer the Charter Change (Cha-Cha) to the next Congress as the House of Representative is already running out of time to tackle its resolution. He made the appeal Tuesday, Dec. 18, after the House already...
Filipinos have a more pressing matter to attend to than Charter Change (Cha-cha). Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (Photo from the Cabinet Secretariat Facebook page) Cabinet Secretary and Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles had this to say Tuesday, Jan. 11 in response to Pampanga 3rd...
With the campaign period for the presidential elections just a few weeks away, it is now ‘too late in the day” to amend any provision of the 1987 Constitution. House of Representatives facade Senior members of the Lower House Committee on Constitutional Amendment aired this stand following the...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo hopes that the Supreme Court will resolve all concerns raised against the controversial Anti-Terror Law that some critics said will lead to more red-tagging of government critics. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP) Robredo noted the advisory from the...
