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On March 19, 2024, the Philippine House Committee on Constitutional Amendments approved on third and final reading "Resolution of Both Houses No. 7" the economic charter change (Cha-cha), that will amend economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
Constitutional reform in the Philippines, commonly referred to as charter change or colloquially as cha-cha, involves the political and legal procedures required to modify the existing 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
By 2021, efforts to introduce a federal form of government in the Philippines has halted. Among the factors include lack of support from members of the Congress, lack of public awareness on federalism, and public skepticism on charter change which is a prerequisite for federalism.
Executive Order No. 10 was signed on December 7, 2016, by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte which created a consultative committee to review the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines. [1] The move officially set in motion the process for amending the 30-year-old charter and set up a federal system of government in the Philippines aimed at ...
January 4 – PIRMA, the group behind a charter change campaign in 1997, renews its attempts at constitutional reform through the People's Initiative. [4] [5] January 5 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 11976, allowing digitalization for simplified tax compliance. [6]
The Commission finished the draft charter within four months after it was convened. Several issues were hotly debated during the sessions, including on the form of government to adopt, the abolition of the death penalty , the continued retention of the Clark and Subic American military bases, and the integration of economic policies into the ...
Unlike Charter change under presidents Ramos and Arroyo, the CONCORD proposal, according to its proponents, would only amend the 'restrictive' economic provisions of the constitution that is considered as impeding the entry of more foreign investments in the Philippines.
A nomination process was held to select the members of the commission. The commission was composed of 48 national, regional, and sectoral representatives, which included lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, landlords, health professionals, religious leaders, labor and peasant leaders, university professors, and journalists.