SENATE President Franklin Drilon has joined the growing number of lawmakers calling for an overhaul of the Constitution, filing a draft resolution proposing a Constitutional Convention or Con-Con by next year.

Drilon on Sunday said he had filed Resolution No. 1 in which both houses of Congress would call for the election of delegates to a convention to propose amendments to, or revise, the 29-year-old Constitution. The election, Drilon added, would be held on January 30, 2017.

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