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Instead of exposing and thwarting the people’s initiative (PI) scam, the Senate, under the leadership of Juan Miguel Zubiri, made a surprise move Monday by initiating the same chacha mode that he categorically opposed before.
By filing Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 6 in the Senate, Senate President Zubiri wiggled 180 degrees from where he stood eleven months ago, when the same RBH No. 6 proposing to convene a constitutional convention to amend the economic provisions of the Constitution passed the House of Representatives on March 2023.
The House version of RBH 6, explained Speaker Martin Romualdez in a statement posted on the HOR website, “aims to limit its Charter amendments to the'restrictive economic provisions of the basic law’ in the hope that the changes will pave the way for the country to attract more foreign investments.”
In response to this, Zubiri said the Senate lacks the numbers to dance with chacha. “18 boto ang kailangan ng ating mga kasamahan sa Senado para umusad ang Charter change, wala kaming numero na ganyan. So for us, it's moot and academic. We might as well focus on the LEDAC priority measures, which will help solve the problem of inflation and smuggling.”
His recent move, therefore, did little to stop the initiative. On the contrary, Zubiri finally unlocks the Senate gates to allow the speeding chacha train, which will be taking the shortest route via ConAss.
Played at the top, these current political moves seem to lead us in the same political direction. Traditional politicians want more economic liberalization and deregulation when these were the same policies that effectively killed our industry and agriculture. They want freer entry to foreign capital but have failed to address the high cost of electricity and corruption in government, which drive investors away. They want longer terms of office when the sad reality is that they are also the political dynasties that have been in power for several decades now.
SP Zubiri emphasized that his move was meant to avert the occurrence of a constitutional crisis. Surveys, however, show that people were mostly concerned about inflation, wage hikes, unemployment, poverty and hunger. People fear nothing about charter infirmities or constitutional crises.
Knowing all these, Zubiri should rather have prioritized the enactment of his proposed P150 across-the-board wage hike nationwide, despite the opposition from local businesses and foreign investors.
Finally, this recurring ploy convinced us further to believe that aside from the harsh economic impact our country has suffered from embracing capitalist globalization, the dynastic rule of the elite minority is failing this nation. ###
Source: PM on RBH No 6
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