Lacson favors two 4-year terms for elected local gov’t officials

FILE PHOTO: Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson. Photo from his Facebook page

BACOLOD CITY — Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said he favors two successive four-year terms for elected local government officials should the move to amend the 1987 Constitution pushes through.

“Three years are too short. Four years will allow elected officials more solid years to deliver services to their constituents,” he said Wednesday, February 22.

Local officials are currently allowed three successive three-year terms.

The House committee on constitutional amendments approved on Monday, February 20, a resolution of both chambers of Congress calling for a constitutional convention (con-con).

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The resolution proposes that the election of delegates from each legislative district to the con-con be set in October 2023, simultaneously with the rescheduled Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.

The call for amendments to the 1987 Constitution is to make the Philippines become globally competitive and attuned to the changing times, the proponents said.

Lacson said he is in favor of amendments to the 1987 Constitution that will boost the country’s economy.

“Maybe there will be more investors coming in if we amend the part on foreign ownership,” he said.

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