The House of Representatives did the
unthinkable that is it decided to backtrack on the bill which was passed on
second reading that will eventually if signed into law will give the Lopez
controlled ABS-CBN 5 months provisional franchise.
Sensing
the flaws on the way its railroaded to second reading, a motion by Deputy
Majority Leader Wilter Palma, the House reopened the
floor deliberations on House Bill No.6732 on second reading “due to the request
of members who wish to make interpellations and amendments.”
“The main reason is transparency, due process and fairness,” according to the
bill’s sponsor, Deputy Speaker Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr., who said the House
of Representative leadership was prepared to hear all proposed amendments to
the measure.
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The proposed bill, spearheaded and authored by Speaker Alan Peter
Cayetano and seven other House leaders, would allow the Lopez controlled
ABS-CBN to go back on the air until Oct. 31.
Constitutionality of the proposed bill was questioned.
Opposition
lawmaker Edcel Lagman argues that the House act of railroading it to second
reading violated 1987 Constitution in approving the bill on first and second
reading on the same day, as bills should be passed on first to third reading on
three separate days.
But the Deputy Speaker said what the Charter required in passing bills was “three readings on separate days, not three separate days.”
He also cited a number of precedents in which Congress passed
joint resolutions on first and second reading on the same day. But that drew
another rebuttal from Lagman, who noted none of those measures were bills.
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