The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) said it supports charter change, provided that amendments will be done through a “constituent assembly,” or “con-ass,” citing it is “less costly,” among others.
THE Management Association of the Philippines said it supports charter change, provided that amendments will be done through a “constituent assembly,” or “con-ass,” citing it is “less costly,” among others.
“The reason being, in a constitutional assembly, you can actually limit the coverage of what we can do. So if the constitutional assembly says okay we can limit this…only to economic provisions changes that affect economic provisions, that would be good,” Du-Baladad said last Wednesday.Last March, local business groups led by the Makati Business Club issued a statement calling on the Senate to ditch amending the Constitution through a con”-con.
“We believe these funds can be better used on agriculture to address the high inflation, transportation to enable Filipinos to get to work and home in much less time, and social services like health, education, and social security,” the groups stressed.
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