{"id":145082,"date":"2018-01-10T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T05:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145082"},"modified":"2018-01-10T00:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T05:31:47","slug":"congress-has-to-iron-out-voting-issue-before-con-ass-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/10\/congress-has-to-iron-out-voting-issue-before-con-ass-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress has to iron out voting issue before con-ass talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111399\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ping1013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111399\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ping1013.jpg\" alt=\"Lacson and a number of senators have previously slammed the BOC for allowing the shipment to enter the Philippines saying inspection was not done properly and protocols were not followed. (pna photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ping1013.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ping1013-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senator Panfilo Lacson (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday said that the Congress would first have to settle the issue on whether to vote jointly or separately before talks of a constitutional assembly (con-ass) mode to amend the 1987 Constitution should take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have to iron out and settle the issue of how we will vote in a joint session first before we even talk of con-ass as a mode of charter revision,\u201d Lacson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the Supreme Court (SC) should come up with an interpretation to decide how the voting should be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the provision in the 1987 Constitution in that regard is quite vague, necessarily, the SC will have to come up with an interpretation that will put to rest that issue of voting jointly or separately,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson earlier said that he preferred a constitutional convention (con-con) over con-ass as the former allowed delegates to be elected per region while the latter involved the Congress proposing amendments to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He made this remark after Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said that he would be filing this week a resolution calling for the Senate and the House of Representatives to convene into a con-ass to revise the Constitution and study the proposed shift to a federal form of government.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson, however, said that Pimentel might not have the Senate support unless senators are assured of separate voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigning the resolution is tantamount to affixing our signatures on our own \u2018death warrant,\u2019\u201d Lacson said following speculations that the shift to a federal form of government could abolish the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also said that he was not inclined to sign Pimentel\u2019s resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday said that the Congress would first have to settle the issue on whether to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[14946,42566,2990,1144],"class_list":["post-145082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aquilino-pimentel-iii","tag-constitutional-assembly","tag-panfilo-lacson","tag-supreme-court","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}