Proposed revisions to the Constitution will be submitted for approval in a plebiscite even if the Senate does not join a Constituent Assembly with the House of Representatives, a lawmaker said on Sunday.

Rep. Eugene de Vera of ABS Party-list, co-author of a resolution calling for the convening of the House of Representatives into a Constituent Assembly, said that as long as the required votes of three-fourths of all the members of Congress were secured, the proposed changes to the Charter could be submitted for approval in a plebiscite.

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