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Light at the tunnel's end: Reviving Cha-Cha

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:29 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana

JUST when the Centrist Democrats, particularly the Centrist Democratic Party (CDP), were losing hope at the end of former president Rodrigo Duterte's term when he dropped the ball on constitutional revisions, we had our expectations revived with the pronouncements of…

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Thucydides Trap: The coming US-China (non) war!

Wednesday, 21 September 2022 07:55 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana

IN November 2019, I wrote a piece on the rise of China based on the book of our Harvard Dean Graham Allison — Destined for War (2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The book described China's reappearance on the world stage as…

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Political prostitution — two similar professions?

Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:11 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana

SHORTLY after the opening of the 19th Congress, Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers filed House Bill 1536, an act seeking to ban political turncoatism. Flamboyantly titled the "Anti-Political Prostitute Act," this bill is a watershed on two counts:…

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'Maid in Malacañang,' Imee's opus

Wednesday, 07 September 2022 11:31 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana

I WATCHED the film "Maid in Malacañang" (MnM) at its premiere showing at the Gaisano Theater in Davao City last month. The last time I went to a film premiere was four or five decades ago at Garmon or Galaxy,…

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Federal-parliamentary vs presidential-unitary systems

Wednesday, 15 June 2022 10:17 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THIS is a supplementary article to my series on "Centrist Democratic (CD) Agenda for President-elect BBM" which started just after the May 9, elections. My memo to president-elect BBM, was followed by "Political dynasties – party-lists" (May 22); Part 1…

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Centrist agenda for BBM: Institutionalize real political parties

Wednesday, 08 June 2022 09:53 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Last of 3 partsLAST week's article touched upon the revisions of the 1987 Cory Constitution toward a parliamentary government, among others. A case was made briefly differentiating between our current presidential versus parliamentary systems, also known as political party government.…

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Centrist agenda for BBM: Revise 1987 Constitution

Friday, 03 June 2022 16:12 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Second of 3 partsTHIS is the second part on the Centrist Democrats (CD) agenda for the BBM government. Last week's column dwelt on the efforts of past administrations, from FVR to Duterte, to initiate changes in the 1987 Cory Constitution,…

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Centrist Democratic agenda for a Marcos regime

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 08:14 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THIS week's column introduces the antecedents behind last week's memo to the president-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong Marcos Jr. (BBM). To recall, that memo centered on the political restructuring of the Philippine system of governance as seen through the prism of Centrist…

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