Senator pimentel federalism

Peace and progress: these two words best sum up, according to the country’s longest-serving proponent of federalism and former Senate President Aquilino Q.

Pimentel Jr., the main objectives for pushing fundamental change in a country long used to the presidential-bicameral system of government that it learned from its colonizers.

The proposal to adopt federalism—a key plank of the campaign platform of then-presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte in the May 9 elections—will unleash capacities all around for leaders at the state down to the village levels to carry out programs to better serve the people because, when this happens, they will have unprecedented access to ample resources that will be equitably distributed in a federal system, Pimentel told attendees to the BusinessMirror-European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) forum, dubbed “Federal Philippines Rising?” on August 23 at the Marriott Hotel.

As he puts it: More peopl