Majority of Filipinos Reject Economic Revisions to Charter
By IBON Foundation
Majority of Filipinos do not favor amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, according to the latest nationwide survey conducted by research group IBON Foundation, Inc.
Of the number of respondents who are aware of current proposals for Charter change (Cha-cha), 87.7% said they do not favor reforms to the Constitutional provision prohibiting foreign ownership of land. Meanwhile, 85.7% opposes the revisions allowing foreign ownership of utilities and natural resources extraction.
Amendments to the economic provisions of the Constitution are among the proposals under House Resolution 737 filed by House Speaker Prospero Nograles. The committee on constitutional amendments approved Nograles’s resolution in February.
Respondents also opposed other proposed amendments to the Charter. Almost 58% said they are not in favor of local government autonomy through a federal system, while 55% opposed the shift from presidential to parliamentary system.
Asked if they were in favor of removing the provision prohibiting foreign troops, 60.5% said no. Meanwhile, 67.7% said they are not in favor of removing the nuclear free provision in the Charter.
The latest IBON survey was conducted on January 7-16 among 1,500 respondents across various sectors and regions nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
Click here for the tabulation of results of the people’s perception on the proposed amendments to the Philippine Constitution.
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