MANILA — Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr.’s passing has left behind an unfinished advocacy to restructure the Philippines’ Manila-centric government under a federal system.
A government inter-agency task force is now campaigning instead for “surgical amendments,” without necessarily abandoning the proposed “big bang” federalism that would require an overhaul of the 1987 Constitution. In one speech, Pimentel recalled how the idea was born in 1982 as “the basis of a viable alternative to the dictatorship.”
Pimentel would field questions patiently, from the most basic to the more complicated such as taxation, revenues, and specific powers to be exercised by the central and subnational governments. “As a matter of fact, you and I know it had happened. But at the end of the day, let's be focused on the ultimate objective.”
The president did not endorse his own committee’s draft, later forming an inter-agency task force to conduct further study and consolidate proposals on federalism and constitutional reforms.
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