MANILA- Cha-cha drive alive amid health crisis
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The Department of the Interior and Local Government aims to gather up to 2 million signatures for Charter change that will be presented to Congress in July
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MANILA, Philippines — The coronavirus crisis is not stopping the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) from pushing Charter change (Cha-cha) and it has directed its regional offices and supporters to continue gathering up to 2 million signatures over the next two months to back amendments to the Constitution, the Inquirer has learned.
From the physical signature campaign, the drive to support what the DILG calls constitutional reform (CORE) has gone online to meet a July deadline while adapting to conditions created by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a senior official and documents obtained by the Inquirer.
Before the pandemic, the DILG was aiming for 2 million signatures nationwide to be presented to both houses of Congress “to inform them of the support we have gathered for the CORE from the regions,” said one memorandum dated Jan. 28 from Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya.
One constitutional reform proposed by the DILG is the institutionalization of the Mandanas decision of the Supreme Court, which ruled that the source of the internal revenue allotments for local governments should be all national taxes, not only those collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, thus increasing the funds to be given to all regions.
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