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Thursday, September 21, 2006
smeared-away vision; 9:46 PM
REJECTING CHARTER-CHANGE
Charter Change is the changing of the presidential form of the government to a parliamentary system. As we encounter nowadays, the Philippines is suffering from poverty due to some instances that our officials didn’t notice. The constitutional mandate for our country is to adopt an independent foreign policy. Executives, and legislatives included, want to change this fundamental law. I am against Charter-Change because Filipinos will suffer more from our economic problems and it will prolong the term of the corrupt officials of our government.
If the government will push through with this project or law, Filipinos will definitely become poorer. There are facts that will convince you that it is true. Like the situation of Filipino workers: Ex- vice President Guingona said, “The supposed safety nets for the farmers and fishermen have not come and they have become poorer as they see their fishes, vegetables, fruits in a market taken over by undue imports.”
Good and effective leadership and governance are what we need for our country to become prosperous and to be stable. We don’t need Cha-Cha in order to become true to what they want but, it is due to lack of government officials and authority. However, if the Cha-Cha will be implemented, the corrupt officials may manipulate the constitution according to their will and it will be repeated continuously as they want. So, why should we change our constitution if the government refuses to follow it? That’s the problem with most Filipinos in the administration. They’re living in a BIG LIE. These lies started with our government officials. The biggest lie that they have committed was the right of the people to vote directly for the head of our country. They just did this because they have power and authority to change or to put or to remove what they want.
Charter Change can be good in some ways. Just let the candidates for the position bare or exposed their platforms of the change they want because those changes will might us and our country will either be successful or not. As we can see now, there are no new developments that would mean the demand or warrant of the administration’s proposal to modify the Constitutional law. There is no room for Charter-Change at this time and place. It is me who will not support the plan.
