The congressional initiative to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution is dead.

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., late Wednesday night decided not to put into a vote his proposed economic Charter Change (Cha-cha) after he failed to get the needed number to pass on third and final reading the controversial measure.

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