SENATE Minority Leader Aquilino 'Koko' Pimentel 3rd and Senator Grace Poe opposed the proposal of Senator Robinhood Padilla to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution through a constituent assembly.

'Although we need constitutional changes to improve our system of government, this can wait as we should first address the basic daily living problems like where to get food to feed the family, the continued increase in prices (inflation), where to get a job, corruption, the high cost of living and even of dying, and many, many more basic problems,' Pimentel said.