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Death penalty and Sara Duterte: The somber and the bizarre

Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:45 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THE past two weeks’ op-ed pages, TV talking heads, social media blogs and comments echoed the SONA interpretations of the President’s intent or non-intent. Their critique and follow-up stories, both constructive and negative, were roughly split in two major categories…

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Without structural reforms, we are doomed

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 11:45 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

AS expected, the President’s SONA was coasting along nicely in the first 30 minutes or so. With uncharacteristic aplomb, he opened his discourse boasting of the latest survey results that showed a disapproval rating of only 3 percent, taunting Congress…

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Federalism in its death throes? (Part 4)

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:39 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Part 4: Framework for federalism IN last week’s Part 3, we proposed enacting four laws (the preconditions) prior to revising the 1987 Constitution. Once in place, a framework for federalism can be written in the revised Constitution as a constitutional…

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Federalism in its death throes? (Part 3)

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:47 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Part 3 – Preconditions to federalismIN last week’s column (“Part 2: Unitary presidential vs federal parliamentary”), I discussed the need for revising the 1987 Constitution possibly beyond DU30’s term. But the shift towards federalism will be realized only when certain…

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Federalism in its death throes? (Part 2)

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 09:25 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Part 2 – Unitary presidential vs federal parliamentary IN Part 1 of this series we took DU30’s “Federalism is dead!” with a grain of salt. The Centrist Democrats (Centrists) are unequivocal that PRRD is the linchpin of a constitutional shift…

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Federalism in its death throes?

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 11:01 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THE President’s pronouncements that federalism is dead is both true and false. It could be dead in the sense that DU30 may no longer spend his political capital steering its complexities through his remaining three years. But if the 1987…

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Reed Bank, KAPA atbp.

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 09:56 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

SCANNING the headlines and social media the past three weeks, one can’t help being dumbfounded at how we have gone overboard on the Reed/Recto Bank incident. From where I sit, I see the Philippine government preventing “making a mountain out…

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The end of ABS-CBN?

Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:06 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THE ABS-CBN franchise ends March 20, 2020, nine months from today, unless the 18th Congress decides to renew it. Which means congressmen who are in the pocket of the franchisee could now carry out their end of the bargain or…

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