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SENATOR Robinhood “Robin” C. Padilla on Monday filed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend provisions of the 1987 Constitution to dispel fears that this would advance the interests of only a few.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Resolution of Both Houses 8, Padilla , who chairs the Senate committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes, said this would be a “participatory and democratic” way of revising the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “To dispel any doubt that a proposed revision to the 1987 Constitution would only advance the interests of a few, a Constitutional Convention is deemed to be the more appropriate mode of doing said revision,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In his resolution, members of the Senate and House of Representatives are to vote separately in calling for a Constitutional Convention. A vote of two-thirds of each House voting separately is needed for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also, Padilla’s resolution called on Congress to “enact an enabling legislation that will embody all details relative to the convening of the Constitutional Convention.”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Padilla noted that in a Constitutional Convention, the revision would be participatory since the delegates are elected by the people, and “are more likely be a more diverse and representative body.”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He also cited a position paper by the faculty members of the University of the Philippines’ Department of Political Science faculty noted a Con-Con encourages more participation and likely promotes diversity of views.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Likewise, he said the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform (IPER) noted that the members of a Con-Con, will be “more focused” and the process will be “democratic, transparent, and deliberative.”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier, Padilla also noted he will seek the help of former secretaries Romulo Neri (NEDA) and Margarito Teves (DOF) to lower the costs of holding a Con-Con.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SENATOR Robinhood “Robin” C. Padilla on Monday filed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend provisions of the 1987 Constitution to dispel fears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}