Cha-Cha can send FOI to backburner

Putting Charter Change (Cha-Cha) higher in the list of priority list measures than the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill will sideline the FOI bill for good, one of the authors of the FOI said Tuesday.

Rep. Teddy Baguilat of Ifugao, a member of the ruling Liberal Party (LP), expressed such sentiments over the announcement of LP Vice Chairman and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. of Quezon City that he ranks Charter Change higher in the priority list because the various pending FOI measures are yet to be consolidated by the Technical Working Group which is yet to be convened.