MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives is not closing its doors to discussing the preferred mode of the Senate in amending the 1987 Constitution, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said on Friday. Romualdez set the record straight, noting that this is what he told Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez, who claimed on Thursday that he had convinced the Speaker to back Charter change through a constituent assembly (con-ass). Romualdez stressed that the lower chamber had already approved on final reading a bill seeking to establish a constitutional convention (con-con) to relax the restrictive economic provisions in the 36-year-old Charter.

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