President Rodrigo Duterte is leaving Malacañang with federalism still what it was when he ran for the country’s top post in 2016: a campaign buzzword that failed to see the light of day. Read this in-depth report by newsdwight:
“[The issues range] from the technical to the political, like Mindanao, for example. Obviously, there’s a sense of being Mindanaoan, so you can federate Mindanao. But is there a sense of being Luzonian? I don’t really think they had a plan for these ramifications, so shifting to another system is more complicated than it seems,” Abao said. “It’s not [as simple as] the rhetoric, ‘We don’t like people from Manila.
“If people are not aware what is in the current Constitution, now we are under a unitary system, how can they understand the need to shift to federalism?” Atienza asked. “There is a problem in information dissemination, maybe consistent with the style of President Duterte. Everything was top-down.” “My government sought to broaden democratic participation through federalism, but my constitutional project did not get Congress support. So be it. I respect the separation of powers vital for democracy,” Duterte admitted in December 2021.It remains to be seen whether Marcos Jr. would embrace the same federalism rhetoric that Duterte embodied, although such a proposal was absent from his campaign sorties when he was running.
“It just leaves me thinking, are they serious about federalism or not?” Abao said. “There’s going to be a learning curve for [Padilla] in terms of legislation.”
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