Article: Changing minds for political reasons?(Consider This)

Byline: Jesus M Elbinias

THE Sigaw ng Bayan has announced it is ready to file a petition asking Comelec to hold a plebiscite on the parliamentary shift before the Senate stops the momentum of the mass campaign of the people's initiative by offering the legislated Cha-cha proposal. The Sigaw ng Bayan claims to have already gathered almost 9 million signatures in support of the people's initiative -- almost double the constitutional requirement of 5.16 million or 12 percent of the total voting population. That may be so, but will those who have signed to support the initiative not change their minds later?

As Howard Gardner, author of "Changing Minds -- ...

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