MANILA, Philippines--Moves to revoke Proclamation 1959 placing Maguindanao under martial law snowballed in the House of Representatives after 26 congressmen, mostly coming from the Liberal Party (LP), filed a resolution opposing it.

Party list representatives earlier filed two separate resolutions to revoke the proclamation.

The House and the Senate will convene in joint session at 4 p.m.Wednesday to deliberate on the proclamation.

According to the resolution, Proclamation 1959 ?does not satisfy the constitutional requirements and lacks factual and legal bases to support its validity.?

?No actual rebellion has actually transpired in the province of Maguindanao. Martial law cannot be declared as preventive measure against rebellion but it must already be existing,? the resolution said.

Quezon Representative Lorenzo ?Erin? Tanada III called on his colleagues in the chamber to oppose the proclamation.

Tanada, chairman of the committee on human rights, also said he will join the deliberations in joint session.

?I will focus on the factual bases of the proclamation, its constitutionality and at the possible human rights violations as a result of martial law. Let us not forget that during martial law, news can be blocked and rewritten according to what the military rulers say,? he said in a statement.

Tanada added that ?Up to now, reports of human rights violation, be it by the military or by other forces, remain unconfirmed.?

?But that doesn?t mean that there are no human rights violations. We must protect the rights of majority of the people of Maguindanao who are not at fault and should not be unduly punished,? he said.