ELECTION lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Monday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to stop receiving signature sheets in support of a people's initiative to amend the Constitution.

Macalintal said the gathering of signatures endorsing a people's initiative "is just a waste of time and paper" because these have no "evidentiary value or cannot be the basis of an initiative."

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