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Article: Cha-cha can wait - Villar.(Main News)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 14, 2008
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"We should be concentrating on alleviating the economic difficulties of our people," he said.
Villar's statement appeared to synthesize the sentiments of his colleagues that any amendment to the Charter should be made after the 2010 presidential election to foil any plan of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to extend her tenure beyond the constitutional provision of a one-time, six-year term for a Philippine president. Her term ends in 2010.
Villar is one of the 14 senators who signed last April Senate Resolution No. 10 seeking the passage of a joint resolution to convene the Congress into a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) for the purpose of revising the ...