The Federal Republic of the Philippines
No question, on the first list on the agenda of the presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte is to change the country’s system into a federal form of government. It is not yet still clear if this Federal system will be patterned after Canada, the United States, Switzerland or Germany. But as we have observed from the very beginning the president-in-waiting has been fighting for federalism even long before he decided to run for president.
A team from president-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte has already mapped out plans to spread information around the world about federalism to make people understand what the system is all about. Duterte has been given his time a timetable of 2 years to go beyond with this change in the system and submit some plans and proposal either to a plebiscite or referendum.
And no doubt all the moves of the incoming administration is wasting no time, settling everything so that all the needed numbers to push for this charter change in both house of congress where the catalyst is expected to come.
Duterte’s PDP-Laban has already formed a coalition with the Lakas-CMD, Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) and Nacionalista Party with other groups like Makabayan bloc, National Unity Party and Visayan bloc also supporting the federalism agenda.
In the Senate, Koko Pimentel and Alan Peter Allan Cayetano would most likely to toss up for the Senate president position, given the fact that the current ruling LP’s number has been lowered following the pronouncement of seven non-LP candidates in the magic 12 senator winners of the recent election.
Some other politicians also agree that pushing a change of federalism is the best right way to start Duterte’s administration.
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