TACLOBAN CITY – Plans to amend the Constitution is timely to let the country go with the flow of global economic trend, Leyte Governor Jericho “Icot” Petilla said.
Petilla is among the public leaders in the region who is supporting to Charter change but what it known that provision on the term limits of all elected officials should not be touched but only those something to do with the economy.
“There are lot’s of provisions in the Constitution that need to be amended to adopt with the changing times,” said Petilla.
The economic provisions particularly on the ownership of land, according to Petilla, should be amended if the government wants more investors to come in to do business in the country.
“Big companies mostly owned by foreign firms are the ones who can afford to invest huge amount of money as their capital, but their problem is they cannot own a land in the country because it is not allowed by our present Constitution,” Petilla said.
“If you want some investors to come, they need to be provided with a land where they can put their business, although there are exemption as of the moment in the present Constitution but this exemption is still not clear,” he added.
“Maybe if we can clear this exemption we can have good investment,” he stressed.
However, Petilla added that in the course of changing some provisions in the Constitution, people should also be consulted.
“We must make all things clear to the people, what are to be changed and why these needs to be changed,” he stressed.
To recall, both the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to tackle the issue on Charter change, touching mainly on its economic provisions.
Although both leadership of the highest legislative body of the government had agreed on the plan, President Aquino, however, do not support said plan especially in changing the economic provision but rather emphasizes that the solution for the economic growth of the country depends on good political system.
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