People’s Initiative vs. pork barrel

By The Manila Times

Oct 30, 2013 9:57 pm

Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.

Around two weeks ago, former Chief Justice Reynato Puno called on leaders of the August 26 Million People March to “exercise for the first time the reserve power given to the sovereign people” to enact laws embodied in the Philippine Constitution and Republic Act 6735 or the “Initiative and Referendum Act.”

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