The perrenially inconsistent Duterte has again changed his mind. The trapos-infested and dynasties-controlled Duterte Congress (with a Fake Minority) will convert itself into a "Constituent Assembly" or "Con-Ass" to railroad the revision of the Constitution to adopt Duterte's "Federal System" dream.
Duterte renegs on his campaign promise to call for a "Constitutional Convention" or "Con-Con" composed of independent-minded, non-partisan and scholarly Delegates elected by the people to revise the Constitution.
Although a "National Referendum" determines whether or not the people will ultimately ratify the revisions crafted by a "Con-Ass", nevertheless, it is risky and unwise to entrust to partisan trapos-warlords and their dynasties, at the first instance, the revision of the Basic Law of the land. Their vested political and economic interests are massive, entrenched and suspicious.
We, as a sovereign people, are mandated by "national interest" and "self-determination" to vigilantly move for a truly democratic method of revising our Constitution, that is, a "Con-Con", as Duterte himself expressly promised when he was actively courting our precious votes last election.
That is the best and the wisest way of protecting our future as a nation.
- Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr.
