Collecting Cha-cha signatures 'a waste of time'

By Franco Jose C. Baroña

Jan 23, 2024 12:21 am

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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