Former Manila Mayor and now Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza of Buhay mentioned one good reason, or probably the best reason, not to change the Constitution through Congress, even if supposedly it would be limited to economic provisions alone.

Atienza said that during his recent interpellation of the chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Liberal Party Rep. Mylene Garcia Albano of Davao City, the latter refused to commit that political provisions would not be touched in case of amendments to the economic provisions of the Constitution.

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