MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is once again accepting signature sheets for the holding of a people’s initiative to enact national or local laws after it was suspended in 2024. The acceptance of petitions for amendments to the Constitution, however, remains suspended. “If there are people who wish to have a people’s initiative on what laws should be passed on the national or maybe the local level, we will accept it. [However,] we are not encouraging it,” Comelec Chair George Erwin Garcia said in an ambush interview on Wednesday. “In the meantime, we will still not accept […]... Keep on reading: Comelec reopens signature filing for people’s initiative