Akbayan asks Pres. Aquino to clarify his statement on Charter change. In urging Aquino to clarify his Cha-cha statement, Akbayan Representatives Walden Bello and Ibarra Gutierrez said such a clarification would “avoid unnecessary confusion.” “Amid the already confusing and complex state of affairs the people find themselves in right now, political clarity is important. The government must not play into the hands of those who will use and twist the President’s opinion to feed the obfuscation created by those who stand to benefit the most from an undermined Aquino government,” they said. They said Aquino “must make his position on Charter change clearer.” “Even as the President is driven by good intentions in his openness to amend the country’s Charter to check the power of the Supreme Court, an expressed openness to Charter change in the current context can be seized upon by vested interests out to advance a self-serving political or economic agenda,” they stressed. “Akbayan shares President Aquino’s hope that the momentum of reform he has begun can be sustained in the next term. We are looking forward to how these reforms would continue beyond his six-year term. We also agree that the next president must approximate the same integrity and commitment to the reform process that President Aquino has demonstrated to carry on the campaign for meaningful change,” they added.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:05:47 +0000
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