Majority of Filipinos are against the proposal of the administration to shift to a federal form of government, the latest research by Pulse Asia showed.<\/p>\n
In a survey the pollster conducted from\u00a0June 15 -21, they asked 1800 respondents whether or not the Philippine government’s unitary system should be changed into a federal form. From the said total of respondents, 62 percent said they are against the proposal.<\/p>\n
Breaking down the 62 percent of disagreeing respondents, it showed that 34 percent do not want to change the form of government \u201cnow or at any other time\u201d while the 28 percent are only opposing the proposal \u201cnow\u201d but are open to it \u201csometime in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 28 percent support that the Constitution should be amended \u201cnow\u201d while 10 percent said they \u201cdon\u2019t know\/can\u2019t say.\u201d Majority of Filipinos are against the proposal of the administration to shift to a federal form of government, the latest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 16 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"