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                    [Title] => ‘Poverty is main motivation of people’s initiative’
                    [Summary] => Poverty is what primarily motivated the 10 million Filipinos to get behind the people’s initiative movement to amend the 1987 Constitution, advocates of Charter change said yesterday.


"Grumbling stomachs and lack of jobs compelled the people to act on their own. Aside from political discontent, economics is the primary motivating element why 10 million Filipinos opted for a people’s initiative," said Cha-cha advocacy commission (ad-com) chairman Lito Monico Lorenzana.
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The committee on transitory provisions of the 54-member presidential consultative commission (con-com) tasked to propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution may allow President Arroyo to keep her post until 2010, the time at which the country is expected to shift to a parliamentary and federal system of government.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => ‘Poverty is main motivation of people’s initiative’
                    [Summary] => Poverty is what primarily motivated the 10 million Filipinos to get behind the people’s initiative movement to amend the 1987 Constitution, advocates of Charter change said yesterday.


"Grumbling stomachs and lack of jobs compelled the people to act on their own. Aside from political discontent, economics is the primary motivating element why 10 million Filipinos opted for a people’s initiative," said Cha-cha advocacy commission (ad-com) chairman Lito Monico Lorenzana.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308265 [Title] => Con-com mulls possibility of GMA staying in power until 2010 [Summary] => The menu of options for a new Charter and a new system of governance is now under review.

The committee on transitory provisions of the 54-member presidential consultative commission (con-com) tasked to propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution may allow President Arroyo to keep her post until 2010, the time at which the country is expected to shift to a parliamentary and federal system of government.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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