30 November 2005
Con-Com team consults Pangasinenses Dec. 2
PANGASINENSES will have a chance on December 2 to express their views on the proposed revision of the Constitution.
At least nine members of the Consultative Commission created by President Arroyo including lawyer Raul Lambino who will lead the team in Pangasinan, will meet with a cross-section of society from the province at the Regency Hotel for a day’s consultation and workshop.
A press conference was scheduled 8 a.m. at the hotel before the start of the consultation at 9 a.m.
An overview of Executive Order 453 which created the 50-man consultative commission (Con-com) to do nationwide consultations will be presented to the participants that will include local political, business and other leaders from Pangasinan.
The activity will include a workshop among the participants at 10 a.m. and presentation of the workshop output after lunch break, an open forum and an optional press briefing after the consultation.
The group will proceed later in the afternoon to San Fernando City in La Union for a similar activity the next day.
Similar consultations have been scheduled in other parts of Luzon starting November 29. The commission first went to Visayas and Mindanao last October for such dialogues.
Dagupan City Vice-Mayor Alvin Fernandez was also named member of the Con-com representing the vice-mayors’ league. He will be joining the visiting commissioners.
Fernandez, in an interaction last week with agencies preparing for the December 2 event, said he was amenable to the proposed shift of government system from the present unitary-presidential to parliamentary-federal.
He noted however that several issues have to be addressed first concerning the proposed type of government. (DOS/PIA)
At least nine members of the Consultative Commission created by President Arroyo including lawyer Raul Lambino who will lead the team in Pangasinan, will meet with a cross-section of society from the province at the Regency Hotel for a day’s consultation and workshop.
A press conference was scheduled 8 a.m. at the hotel before the start of the consultation at 9 a.m.
An overview of Executive Order 453 which created the 50-man consultative commission (Con-com) to do nationwide consultations will be presented to the participants that will include local political, business and other leaders from Pangasinan.
The activity will include a workshop among the participants at 10 a.m. and presentation of the workshop output after lunch break, an open forum and an optional press briefing after the consultation.
The group will proceed later in the afternoon to San Fernando City in La Union for a similar activity the next day.
Similar consultations have been scheduled in other parts of Luzon starting November 29. The commission first went to Visayas and Mindanao last October for such dialogues.
Dagupan City Vice-Mayor Alvin Fernandez was also named member of the Con-com representing the vice-mayors’ league. He will be joining the visiting commissioners.
Fernandez, in an interaction last week with agencies preparing for the December 2 event, said he was amenable to the proposed shift of government system from the present unitary-presidential to parliamentary-federal.
He noted however that several issues have to be addressed first concerning the proposed type of government. (DOS/PIA)
