Charter Change

I do not consent to changing our present form of government, which is a democratic and republic state where sovereignty resides in the people and government authority emanates from them. If we were to change the present form of government which is presidential to parliamentary it will defeat the essence of democracy, the right of suffrage will be limited, the principle separation of powers, in which the three branches are co-equal that there is no power greater than the other branches, will no longer be observed because the judicial branch will have less power compared in a parliamentary system if such is implemented. In establishing a parliamentary system of government, congress will be abolish as a consequence passing of laws will tend to benefit the authors and be prejudicial to the people. Also in this kind of system the parliament will be given much power and the people will be given less representation. These are just some of the negative effects of changing our system of government into a parliamentary with respect to the freedom that we are now enjoying under our presidential form of government.

The problem is the question on which kind of parliamentary system are we gonna adopt. Different countries which are having parliamentary system have different way in implementing. Chances are, it will be the administration might benefit the charter change. There will be unlimited extensions of term.

I can say that we are not ready for charter change. It’s not timely. Its very obvious that personal interest, hunger of power by the present administration will only benefit it. And in terms of its appropriation, change from one system to amendments of our constitution would be costly that it would affect our economic stability and other factors.