(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Monday, July 16, vowed to stop any “Cha-cha express,” saying the “product” of the Constitutional Commission, a “document as important as the basic law,” should be “rigorously studied, and not railroaded.”
“I will block any Cha-cha express, especially one driven by people with expiring terms and fuelled by selfish interest,” she said in a statement.
According to Poe, she took the “centrist view of giving the Con-com’s product the courtesy of a thorough study, subject it to intense debate, so that we can all make an informed choice.”
She said this was despite a situation that saw people “caught in a tug-of-war between two extremes. ”
“One demanding that we approve it without thinking. The other to reject it outright,” Poe said.
The Con-com has been tasked by President Rodrigo Duterte to look into the 1987 Constitution and to draft a new federal charter.
Duterte has said federalism was the answer to the problems besetting Mindanao.