I don’t know who President Duterte’s source was about the cost of amending the Constitution through a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con), but I was so shocked when I read a newspaper broadsheet quoting him that he does not want Con-Con because it would cost the country some P200-300 billion. I initially thought it was a typo error, but that figure was mentioned again in the same article.

Indeed, it is easy to make the wrong decision if the basis for such decision were itself wrong.

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