SOURCE: Press and Public Affairs Bureau
11 July 2018 02:27:40 PM
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas formally receive a copy of the draft federal constitution from the members of the Consultative Commission (Con-Com), led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno. In a press briefing, Alvarez and Fariñas said that the work of the Con-Com is recommendatory. They said that it is Congress, working as constituent assembly, which has the authority to propose amendments to the constitution.