(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has issued Wednesday (December 7) an executive order (EO) creating a 25-man panel that will review the 1987 Constitution for possible amendments.
“As to the provision of the Constitution to be amended, the President has issued the other day an executive order creating the committee for consultative study of the Constitution,” Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said Thursday (December 8).
“Basically, it’s a consultative committee to review the 1987 Constitution to be composed of 25 selected individuals whose names will be later on submitted to the President,” Medialdea added.
The committee will have six months from its creation to present its study to Duterte.
The Executive Secretary also informed that he told the Senate committees that the President’s preferred way of charter change is through constitutional assembly.