Analysis by Raïssa Robles —
Is the Scrap Pork Network behind the People’s Initiative promising something that might get shot down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in the end? Something even Congress can easily overturn?
Why didn’t any official in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines see the potential constitutional defects and suggest amendments to the draft law entitled “An Act abolishing the presidential and congressional pork barrel system, strengthening the system of checks and balances over public funds, prohibiting certain acts, and providing penalties therefore?”