The League of Cities of the Philippines supports the initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, LCP chairman, said Saturday, January 6.
In fact the LCP National Executive Board has already passed a resolution in support of the move, he said.
The LCP supports the initiative to propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines as these will bring the necessary growth and development needed by our economy, the resolution said.
The resolution states that the LCP advocates for progressive, sustainable, and smart cities.
The LCP is of the considered view that the country needs to introduce amendments to the Constitution to achieve a genuinely progressive and self-sufficient society, it said.
The country needs laws that can transcend the changing demands of the economy, better serve the nation, and ensure that the land’s supreme law will protect the democracy of the Philippines, it added
“It is the firm determination of the LCP that the global environment, the regional realignments and the national socio-economic and political realities in the Philippines, since 1987 or 36 years ago, have all been radically altered, disrupted and totally revolutionized by the dizzying pace of rapid technological advances and by massive geo-political and environmental upheavals in the last five years, which shall continue unceasingly for the next many decades in our journey as a nation,” the resolution said.
Congressmen from the supermajority coalition have launched a campaign for charter change via a people’s initiative, Rep. Edcel C. Lagman (Albay, 1st District) said in a press statement Saturday.*