Duterte favors ex-justices in body to draft new Constitution

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte favors former justices as members of the 24-man Constitutional Commission (ConCom), which will serve as the advisory body to Congress in drafting a new Charter towards a federal government, a spokesman in Malacanang said Friday.

Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella made the announcement a day after Reps. Eugene de Vera of ABS party-list and Aurelio Gonzales of Pampanga submitted their proposed new Constitution under Resolution of Both Houses No. 8 which will establish a federal government, a bicameral legislature, and divide the country into 18 regions each governed with a regional government and each region represented by Senators elected at large.