Ex-Chief Justice Puno: PH needs change in political system

Not just a changing of the guard, but a change in the country’s political system.

This, according to former Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno, should be foremost on the minds of the country’s political leaders and heads of various organizations as they meet Wednesday at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan, for “Securing the Country’s Future: A Summit for Change.”

“Everybody is already talking about who the captain of our ship should be when the more crucial task is to examine the condition of our ship so that we can assemble the right crew,” said Puno who convened the summit to discuss what he considered the “seven challenges facing the nation” and to forge a consensus on changing the country’s political system by revising the 1987 Constitution.

The summit’s speakers include former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr., former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Supreme Court Associate Justice Francis H. Jardeleza, former Budget and Finance Secretary Salvador Enriquez Jr., 1986 Constitutional Commission member Rene V. Sarmiento, former University of the Philippines President Jose V. Abueva, Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo, and economist and author Calixto Chikiamco.