PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has warned lawmakers against using Charter change for their selfish motives, or Congress will be shut down.

Duterte made the statement in a Malacañang speech Wednesday night amid growing opposition to his plan to revise the 1987 Constitution through Congress as a Constituent Assembly, instead of an elected Constitutional Convention.

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