Speaker Arroyo backs separate House, Senate vote to push Charter change

SPEAKER Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo supports separate voting between the Senate and House of Representatives for the approval of a new federal constitution.

“There is no timeline but we should move forward from the time when I was President. I ended my presidency with the same stalemate. You [could] remember we have the same stalemate on voting separately and voting together and a few years later we are in the same stalemate. We should move forward and the way to move forward is to agree to voting separately,” Arroyo said.