THE House of Representatives cannot use the people’s initiative option as a means of making changes in the constitution because no law has been passed yet by Congress that would allow such an exercise, Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd said on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters during the Kapihan sa Senado news forum, Sotto said that while the 1987 Constitution provided three ways to amend it, a law must be enacted first in order to implement the people’s initiative provision.
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