Research group IBON however says that this is just a smokescreen for the self-serving political agenda of the Marcos family and of legislators. Changing the economic provisions will not develop the economy and too few legislators even made the effort to update their antiquated notions about foreign investment.
IBON surmises that the overriding compulsion of Pres. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr to change the 1987 Constitution is to remove what is arguably the most institutionalized counteraction to the dictatorship of his father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The 1987 Constitution was not just a wholesale repudiation of the Marcosian 1973 Constitution but a radical effort to remove all vestiges of the Marcos dictatorship and prevent its repeat.
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