(Eagle News) — The Senate and the House of Representatives should thresh out their issues and determine how to move forward with Charter Change.
“Talagang tanging Kongreso lang ang dapat magresolba ng isyung ito at iyan po ang paninindigan ng Palasyo,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said.
He said, however, that based on his experience as congressman, Congress “is not just deliberative, it’s consensual.”
“..You need to build consensus and the same consensus-building will have to be resorted to between the House and the Senate on the issue of how to move forward with constituent assembly,” he said.
The House of Representatives and the Senate are at a deadlock as to how they should vote to propose amendments to the Constitution to pave the way for federalism in a Constituent Assembly.
Congressmen led by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez believe that all that was needed was a 3/4 vote of all members of Congress.
As such, he said that the House of Representatives alone could muster the needed numbers.
But senators believe that the voting should be done separately since a joint voting would render them irrelevant.
