THERE is no need to enact a new law to empower the people to propose changes in the Constitution through a peoples initiative, a lawyer and professor has said.
Alberto C. Agra of the Ateneo de Manila University said a 1997 Supreme Court decision did not declare the Initiative and Referendum Act of 1989 unconstitutional.
Agra said there was no need for a law other than Republic Act No. 6734, clarifying that the Supreme Court in the 1997 case of Defensor vs Santiago did not declare it void.
It would be Comelec [Commission on Elections], not the Supreme Court, that will determine in the first instance whether the petition that will be filed by 9 million Filipinos must be given due course, Agra said in a statement.
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The security review
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