BusinessWorld E-paper
February 24, 2022
THE SENATE appears unlikely to give its concurrence to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement even when the session resumes after the May elections, as lawmakers question the lack of support from Malacañang.
“The RCEP will be difficult to pass if the Executive branch doesn’t show full support for it,” Senator Aquilino Martin L. Pimentel III, who heads the Foreign Affairs Committee, told BusinessWorld in a Viber message on Tuesday. “If the Executive branch wants RCEP then they should show it.”
