{"id":9103,"date":"2021-01-16T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3117795\/cha-cha-anyone-philippine-congress-squares-duterte"},"modified":"2021-01-16T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:00:15","slug":"cha-cha-anyone-philippine-congress-squares-off-with-duterte-on-constitutional-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/cha-cha-anyone-philippine-congress-squares-off-with-duterte-on-constitutional-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cha-Cha\u2019, anyone? Philippine Congress squares off with Duterte on constitutional changes"},"content":{"rendered":"A proposed constitutional revamp is dominating discussions in the Philippine Congress once again as allies of President Rodrigo Duterte make another attempt to barrel through charter changes \u2013 the so-called Cha-Cha the country regularly finds itself embroiled in \u2013 amid a worsening Covid-19 pandemic.Members of the House of Representatives\u2019 committee on constitutional amendments, who began deliberations on Wednesday, maintained that the proposed changes \u2013 allowing foreigners to own land and hold\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3117795\/cha-cha-anyone-philippine-congress-squares-duterte\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed constitutional revamp is dominating discussions in the Philippine Congress once again as allies of President Rodrigo Duterte make another attempt to barrel through charter changes \u2013 the so-called Cha-Cha the country regularly finds itself em&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}