ELECTION lawyer Romulo Macalintal questioned the proposal of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to hold the 2025 midterm polls and the Charter change (Cha-cha) plebiscite simultaneously for being constitutionally infirm.
"With all due respect to President Marcos, his position to hold plebiscite to amend the Constitution alongside the 2025 national and local elections (NLEs) is not tenable or of doubtful constitutionality. Section 4, Article XVII of the 1987 Constitution mandates that the ratification of any amendment to or revision thereof shall be done 'in a plebiscite.' Said provision does not say that the ratification shall be done 'in an election,' nor in an 'election and plebiscite,'" Macalintal said in a statement.
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