Speaker Prospero Nograles is a lawyer.
But I will not censure anyone who would think that he is either a barefaced liar or is a fan of Mary Shelley.
His proposal laying down a “4th mode” of amending the Constitution is an undisguised attempt to breathe life into a Frankensteinian charter change.
He even has the gumption to tell all and sundry that this way the co-equal Senate and House of Representatives can thus “retain” their prerogative of voting separately and “also be unable to introduce political proposals” in the charter change push.
Mr. Nograles knows that so-called 4th mode of amending the Constitution is not in the 1987 fundamental law.
more importantly if and when Congress is converted into a Constituent Assembly it is automatically clothed with plenary powers – meaning that it can touch any proviso in the Constitution, including the Transitory Provision, and the form of government.
Such authority coming in the 10th inning of the term of the government of the day will thus open the way for its term extension!
House Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora accurately observes that what Nograles really wants to do is to parlay Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s majority control of the Supreme Court.
This to obtain the high court’s imprimatur on the legality of his Frankensteinian 4th mode of amending the Constitution.
Nograles is moving towards a path that will mark him as being on the wrong side of history.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Perhaps, the Nograles Constitution is now being printed.
Until that next president is sworn to office, I wouldn't take anything off the table.. this recent move, and we knew it would happen, is just such a case..
Isn't the proposal a case of megalomania?
Perhaps, as soon as our politicians retire from politics, they should be sent to a 'sanitarium' .
Changing the constitution cannot change Filipinos.
We'd still be same old Filipinos. Corrupt and bigoted
Whatever the Gods want to destroy. They made them mad. The Administration is mad with Power. It uses everything to try to cling to Power. Nograles and other proxy, who in truth are the running dogs of those in Power. Try to do everything to make his Boss stay in Power.
Have they not learned about the lessons of Erap Estrada and Marcos. No matter, how popular and powerful you
are . There are Forces that can put you down. Some are outside forces, some within your ranks, like Enrile and
Ramos. Most of all the Mob Politics (EDSAs) of the Filipinos.