The mode by which the leadership of the House of Representatives plans to amend the 1987 Constitution is “unsafe” as this would invite a strong constitutional challenge before the high tribunal, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno said on Tuesday.
Puno instead suggested that House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and his allies take a safer route by convening the House and the Senate jointly in coming up with the proposed amendments while voting on them separately afterwards.
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