{"id":220994,"date":"2019-07-01T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220994"},"modified":"2019-07-01T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:33:16","slug":"palace-says-theres-still-hope-for-federalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/01\/palace-says-theres-still-hope-for-federalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace says there\u2019s still hope for federalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220626\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220626\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the chief executive still had three years left before the end of his term so anything was possible. (PCOO File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Despite President Rodrigo R. Duterte earlier admitting that he is inclined not to push for federalism, Malaca\u00f1ang said that hope for a shift to a new system of government is not completely lost.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the chief executive still had three years left before the end of his term so anything was possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPalagay ko &#8216;di mawawala \u2018yan. May tatlong taon pa naman tayo<\/em>(I think the effort to push for federalism won\u2019t just go away. We have three years left),\u201d Panelo said in a radio interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is always the light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo pointed out that the problem between the two chambers of Congress is that they failed to agree on convening a Constituent Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said that Congress could still open its doors to a Constitutional Convention.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNagkaroon sila ng problema dahil &#8216;di nila alam kung paano nila ico<\/em>-constitute<em>\u00a0ang kanilang sarili. &#8216;Yung Senado at &#8216;yung<\/em>\u00a0members\u00a0<em>ng<\/em>House of Rep\u00a0<em>hindi sila magkaunawaan kung paano diskarte nila<\/em>\u00a0(They had problems because they didn\u2019t know how to constitute themselves. The Senate and members of the House of Representatives cannot agree on what to do),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEh &#8216;di lang naman &#8216;yan ang pamamaraan ng pag&#8211;amyenda ng saligang batas, puwede namang<\/em>\u00a0Constitutional convention (A Constituent Assembly is not the only way to amend the Constitution, they can also try a Constitutional Convention),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A Con-Con allows delegates to be elected per region while a Con-Ass involved the Congress proposing amendments to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>On June 26, Duterte said he will no longer insist on pushing for federalism but would still prefer to make \u201cchanges\u201d in the 1987 Constitution but did not elaborate what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do not want federalism, fine,\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the oath-taking of newly-elected senators and local officials endorsed by the Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) in the recent mid-term polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut change the Constitution that would really change this nation,\u201d he added.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Despite President Rodrigo R. Duterte earlier admitting that he is inclined not to push for federalism, Malaca\u00f1ang said that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":220626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220994","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=220994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220999,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220994\/revisions\/220999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}