FORMER Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr. yesterday called on President Duterte to consider appointing more indigenous people and women representatives to the consultative committee he created to review and recommend amendments to the 1987 Constitution.
In a statement sent to this paper, Pimentel said that “aside from former Congressman Wacnang, perhaps, more individuals — representing the Indigenous Peoples of the country ought to be appointed to the Commission.”
He added: “And, probably, more urgently, for obvious reasons, more women should be made members of the Commission.”
So far, there are only 19 appointees by the President to the 25-member Concom that would assist a constituent assembly to revise the Constitution.
“I am extremely honored to have been named by the President as a member of that Commission,” he said.
Pimentel also hailed the designation of former chief justice Reynato Puno as the committee’s head, saying that it was “most fitting” given Puno’s “impeccable credentials as a jurist.”
He said Puno is a “non-partisan exponent of sensible proposals to revise the current fundamental charter for the good of the nation.”
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