(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Dec. 2, reiterated that shifting to a federal set-up of government remains a “priority of the Duterte administration.”
In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the “disposition of the Senate with respect to this proposal should be understood along with its current and tight situation of addressing the 2019 budget with not too ample time to spare.”
“We thus expect the Senate to support the President’s desire for a federal form of government thereafter and see the wisdom of changing the system of government as part of society’s transformation for the betterment of all the Filipinos,” Panelo said.
President Rodrigo Duterte has been pushing for a federal government since he assumed the presidency, saying it would bring about peace in Mindanao.
