Divorce bill will have to wait until next Congress - Belmonte
After approving the reproductive health (RH) bill, the House of Representatives will not immediately follow it up with another equally controversial measure—the divorce bill, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said Tuesday.
“Not in this Congress pero mabuti na rin ‘yung pinag-uusapan,” said Belmonte when asked about the 15th Congress’ plans on the divorce bill.
The Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic state, is the only country in the world that has not yet legalized divorce. House Bill 1799, which allows couples legally separated for two years to file a petition for divorce, is pending at the committee level.
“I’m in favor of divorce bill,… but we don’t know the composition of the next Congress,” he said.
Belmonte added that he wants couples whose relationships are no longer working out to have divorce as an option.
Last year, the House Speaker had openly expressed his support for a divorce law in the Philippines. He said divorce should be considered by Congress since annulment “is working in the country.”
President Benigno Aquino III, the country’s first bachelor chief executive, had said that "divorce is a no-no,” but supported moves to allow legally separated couples to remarry. — DVM, GMA News
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