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7 OUT OF 10 FILIPINOS REJECT ECONOMIC REVISIONS TO CHARTER

June 11, 2009

IBON SURVEY, 27 March 2009

 

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.
 
Below is the tabulation of results of the people’s perception on the proposed amendments to the Philippine Constitution.
 
 
Do you know the Arroyo administration has a proposal to amend or change the 1987 Philippine Consitution (Cha-Cha)? 
 

  October 2008 January 2009
Yes 72.36       81.73
No 27.18       17.60
No Answer 0.47         0.67
Total 100.00      100.00

 
 
The following items are some of the filed reforms to the Constitution. Are you in favor of each of these?
 
Local government autonomy through a federal system                                                                                            
 

  January 2009
Yes 16.88
No 57.59
Don’t Know 24.63
No Answer 0.90
Total 100.00

 
                                           
Presidential to parliamentary system
                                                                                                                                                                          

  January 2009
Yes 20.07
No 54.98
Don’t Know 23.41
No Answer 1.55
Total  100.00

                                            
                                          
Foreign ownership of land                                                                                                                                     
 

  January 2009
Yes 5.71
No 87.68
Don’t Know 5.14
No Answer 1.47
Total 100.00

                                            
                           
Foreign ownership of utilities and natural resources extraction companies                                                               
 

  January 2009
Yes 7.34
No 85.73
Don’t Know 6.04
No Answer 0.90
Total 100.00

                                            
                                                                                                                                            Removal of nuclear free provision                                                                                                                           

  January 2009
Yes 17.86
No  67.70
Don’t Know 12.64
No Answer 1.79
Total 100.00

                                            
                                                                                                                                 Removal of prohibition of foreign troops
 

  January 2009
Yes 23.57
No 60.52
Don’t Know 13.87
No Answer 2.04
Total 100.00

                                                                                                                                                                            

The full results of the January 2009 survey may be viewed at www.ibon.org.

IBON Foundation, Inc. is an independent development institution established in 1978 that provides research, education, publications, information work and advocacy support on socioeconomic issues.

     

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