House deputy minority leader Lito Atienza on Tuesday said the P8 billion that the country will spend for a Constitutional Convention (Con-con) is a good “investment” for the future.

“If we can spend P26 billion to elect a president that we will replace in six years, and to choose members of Congress as well as local officials that we will replace in three, surely we can spend P8 billion to pick delegates to a Constitutional Convention that will draft us a new Charter that is bound to outlast a generation,” the Buhay party-list Representative said in a statement.

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