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"Non-Elections" in September or Bust – Alvarez
MANILA, Philippines – President Pantaleon Alvarez wants the Senate and the House of Representatives to agree to abolish elections in May 2019 in less than three months, or end of September
"Before tabling candidacy certificates (", he replied when asked, in a radio interview, to establish a consensus with senators on his non-election scenario (no-el). [19659004] Officials of the Elections Commission have already told a hearing that the filing period is from October 1 to 5.
Alvarez agreed with his interviewer that it would be difficult to get an agreement on his proposal certificates are filed since the legislators would already start to campaign.
He insisted that both houses of Congress could pass a law postponing the local elections of 2019 by passing a bill to be signed by President Duterte Standing Senate Speaker Vicente Sotto III first took it. However, Sotto backtracked when Senator Francis Escudero warned him that postponing elections beyond next May could violate the Constitution.
Sotto said that he believed that most senators were against the scenario of Alvarez. The year's elections are the only way for Congress to work on the federal constitution that President Duterte is expected to send to the Senate and the House next week.
After the speech on the state of the nation, Alvarez said that
They should go on holiday on Halloween and Christmas and begin their election campaign in February, he said.
After the elections, the calendar will also be tight to work on the draft budget. He pointed out that the federal charter would move the nation to the federal system, he said that the administration would end up with only three years to push for the shift. 9659004] This three-year period includes the transition to the federal system, he said
Alvarez claimed that those who opposed his proposal for non-elec are in fact against the change of the Charter and federalism. "If you are against the change from a form of unitary government to a federal system, that (opposing the no-el) would be the best position to take.Let us have the elections, because they know that after the elections, this (Charter change) is no longer possible. "
If Senators do not agree on the no-el, Alvarez floated the possibility of Cha -cha advocates the use of the popular initiative to amend the Constitution to end the 2019 elections.
Contrary to the assertion of some senators, the vice-president and representative of Batangas Raneo Abu said that there is already a law providing for the implementation of to do Cha-cha via a direct petition of voters.
However, he said the law needs to be strengthened. He filed an invoice to increase the law.
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