PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte wants to name 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 toward a federal government, a spokesman in Malacañang said Friday.

Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella made the announcement a day after Representatives Eugene de Vera of ABS party-list and Aurelio Gonzales of Pampanga submitted their proposed new Constitution under Resolution of Both Houses No. 8.

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