VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Timeline of the 2019 budget deadlock
Smooth-sailing at first, the passage of the 2019 budget was marred by disagreements over the planned shift to cash-based budgeting.
Fact Sheets
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Draft federal charter doubles number of constitutional commissions
Here are the powers and functions of the six commissions.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Lawless violence grounds for martial law in draft charter
Aside from invasion and rebellion, the president may declare martial law citing lawless violence in the draft revised 1987 Constitution.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Draft charter defines, bans political dynasties
Members of a family who maintain or are “capable of maintaining political control” in a national, regional or local position are barred from running simultaneously or in succeeding elections.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Impeachment and the judiciary in the ‘Federal Republic of the Philippines’
In this third installment, VERA Files highlights the structure of an expanded Judicial Department and notes the new process of impeachment found in the Article on Accountability of Public Officers.
