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Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini intended the Philippines to be divided into three federal states, Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.Above is a map that shows the areas generally regarded as Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and may not match the proposed set-up of a federal government under the Aguinaldo–Mabini proposal.
One of Rodrigo Duterte's campaign promises when he ran for president in the 2016 Philippine national elections was the adoption of a federal form of government for the Philippines. He had promised to redistribute power and wealth to the rural areas through the adoption of federalism. [ 1 ]
Politics in the Philippines are governed by a three-branch system of government. The country is a democracy , with a president who is directly elected by the people and serves as both the head of state and the head of government .
The Philippines does not have official diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognizes Beijing as the government of “One China,” but under Marcos it has strengthened its military ties with Taiwan ...
Why Change Our Unitary Republic to the Federal Republic of the Philippines? by José V. Abueva; Abs-Cbn Interactive, New people's initiative drive eyes revision, not amendment [permanent dead link ] Joint Senate Resolution No. 10: Federal System of Government; A repository of reference materials on the need for Constitutional Reform in the ...
In the Philippines, security sector reform (SSR) is focused on "core security actors" that are allowed by the State to use violence in the performance of their mandates: most prominently the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), but also the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA); the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI ...
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is a quasi-judicial government agency of the Philippines whose primary mandate is to recover the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by Ferdinand Marcos, his immediate family, relatives, subordinates and close associates, whether located in the Philippines or abroad.