A Davao native official on Thursday referred to as on the general public to affix a prayer rally towards a signature marketing campaign for the individuals’s initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Davao third District councilor Conrado Baluran stated greater than 50,000 persons are anticipated to troop to Davao City on January 28, 2024, for the “One Nation, One Opposition” prayer rally.
“Together with the calling for every Filipino people to participate in this greater cause for a nationwide campaign, Davao City will remain resilient and will not just stand aside as an observer but shall take part continuously striving to unite for one nation, one strong opposition,” stated Baluran in a press assertion.
Several legislators beforehand stated they acquired experiences that money help such because the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is getting used to lure individuals into signing the individuals’s initiative for Charter change.
Under the signature marketing campaign, voters had been requested in the event that they had been in favor of amending Article 17, Section 1 of the Constitution, which can permit all members of Congress to collectively vote on proposed constitutional amendments in a constituent meeting.
Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte likewise warned his constituents towards the signature marketing campaign.
“To all Dabawenyos, do not sell your soul for a mere P100 or P10,000 in exchange for your signature. If you want to follow the minions of the person dreaming to be great in Congress to perdition that is your choice,” he stated.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III earlier stated experiences on the signature drive would level to Speaker Martin Romualdez because the one behind the individuals’s initiative efforts.
Aside from Pimentel, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa earlier stated that he was knowledgeable that Romualdez was behind the individuals’s initiative efforts — a declare denied by the House Speaker.
“No orders,” Romualdez had stated. “I don’t know what Senator Bato is talking about.”
On Tuesday, Romualdez defined that the House of Representatives solely facilitates the democratic strategy of a individuals’s initiative, stressing that this excludes direct involvement within the signature assortment. —LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
