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(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 […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Tito Sotto on Thursday, July 19, said he senses the Senate will oppose any term extension under a proposed federal Charter. “I do not want to be speaking for everyone else but that is the sense that I am getting from the rest of the Senate,” he said, reacting to Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s proposal the 2019 elections be postponed to immediately give way to a shift to the federal system […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted to step down even before 2019 because he was already “very tired” and wanted a “transition President” to be elected as the country moves towards a federal government. This was what the President said at the start of Monday night’s (July 9) cabinet meeting where he stressed the need for a “transition leader” that will guide the country during the transition period to a federal […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has no plans of staying in office “a second longer” after his term expires in 2022. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who issued a statement after Julio Teehankee, chair of the Constitutional Commission’s sub-panel on political reforms, said Duterte and Vice President Leni Robredo were allowed to seek reelection under a proposed federal government. The Con-Com is tasked to review the 1987 Constitution. “(The President) has repeatedly said: not […]
(Eagle News) – By 2022, the Philippines would already have a federal form of government, and Filipinos will vote for a new president to rule the country. This was the assurance made by former Chief Justice Reynato Puno in a media briefing on Monday, March 26, 2018. “By 2022 we should have already federalized. Meaning, we will no longer have a unitary government, we’ll have a federal government and the powers of the government […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) advised the public to be wary of scammers and con people pretending to be supporters of federalism and allegedly pushing a revolutionary form of government. DILG Officer-In-Charge Catalino Cuy said that he received reports on groups that are offering supporters of federalism and revolutionary government, positions in exchange for cash. Cuy said that he had already given directives to the DILG’s […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is ready to step down in two or three years’ time if Congress would be able to lay the groundwork for a federal system of government. As a matter of fact, he said, he is even ready to leave office anytime if the people truly would not want him to continue as President. In his speech during the awarding ceremonies for the Ten Outstanding Young […]
(Eagle News) — Federalism – and the more equitable distribution of powers to the country’s regions – is the answer to the national progress that everybody has been yearning for in the Philippines. This was the gist of former Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr.’s presentation at the forum on federalism sponsored by the development academy of the Philippines’ council of fellows at the Virata Hall of DAP Pasig. Under Pimentel’s proposal for a Federal […]
