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Con-com spox admits printing error in submitted draft charter
Consultative Committee on Charter Change (Con-com) spokesperson Ding Generoso on Wednesday admitted that the copy of the draft federal charter submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte has some printing errors.
According to Generoso, certain sections printed for the draft were from a file containing proposed changes to the 1987 Constitution instead of from a file that had provisions mutually agreed upon by the Con-com.
"Napick-up is on the second column, not on the third column, which was supposed to be the agreements," Generoso said in an interview on ANC.
Generoso denied that the Con-com was careless for making such mistakes.
"We're being transparent here and we admit [to it]," he said, adding that he was instructed by Chief Justice Renato Puno, who heads the committee, to "go out there" and say "this was an honest mistake, that the staff made a mistake in cutting and pasting the paragraphs that were supposed to go into the draft."
One such error, he said, is the switching of the Bangsamoro representative to the Federal Intergovernmental Commission and the regional assembly representative to the federated region of the Cordilleras.
Another error was found in the provisions concerning labor under section three of the article on social justice.
"I called up our committee secretary and asked him, 'Was this really the set of provisions that the body adopted?' And so, he checked the records," he recalled. "The wrong file may have been put into the master document that we were editing."
"We already had the confirmation for the appointment, so we consulted the committee secretary and we have to review the records," he said, noting that the draft will go through several more revisions.
