THE National Security Council on Wednesday night agreed to set in motion efforts to overhaul the 1987 Constitution through the two Houses of Congress convened as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass), Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said.

Speaking before the Management Association of the Philippines, Alvarez said President Rodrigo Duterte had agreed to abandon his earlier proposal to overhaul the nearly three-decade-old charter through a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) to save time and money.