LML Polettiques (402)

The son also rises

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:11 Written by
LAST week’s column touched briefly on presidential daughter Sara’s Shakespearean quandary, not exactly a Hamlet-like soliloquy as she was conversing with the charlatan “appointed son of God” on the future of the presidency and her possible role in it. This…

Death penalty and Sara Duterte: The somber and the bizarre

Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:45 Written by
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…

Death penalty and Sara Duterte: The somber and the bizarre

Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:45 Written by
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…

Without structural reforms, we are doomed

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 11:45 Written by
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…

Federalism in its death throes? (Part 4)

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:39 Written by
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…

Federalism in its death throes? (Part 3)

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:47 Written by
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…

Federalism in its death throes? (Part 2)

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 09:25 Written by
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…

Federalism in its death throes?

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 11:01 Written by
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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