CHIEF Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile on Wednesday, September 21, said he favors the scrapping of the 1987 Constitution and charter change at this time, but only through a constitutional assembly.
'Let's change the Constitution, but let's do it through a constitutional assembly,' said Enrile during the continuation of the hybrid hearing of the Senate Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes chaired by Sen. Robinhood 'Robin' Padilla on the Review and Study of the 1987 Constitution.
ENRILE BACK IN SENATE Chief Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile returns to the Senate as a resource person of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes during the resumption of the hybrid public hearing on legislative measures calling for a review of the provisions of the 1987 Constitution on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Enrile defended the declaration of martial law by the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., saying it was done to deter the rise of communism in the country. Enrile was then the older Marcos’ Defense minister. SENATE PRIB
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