“Duterte has promised to make the government better and cleaner by directing all agencies to shun red tape and for the public to report all forms of corruption,” the group said. The group urged Filipinos to help Duterte in his war against illegal drugs, criminality, corruption and poverty. However, it said a Constitutional Convention is the better way to make the shift from a unitary system of government to federal. It added that the President may have been misinformed by some people who claimed that a Constitutional Convention will be costly. “We believe, however, that this information was just fed to the President that’s why he deviated from his original proposition to hold a Constitutional Convention.

Source: Manila Times August 16, 2016 15:11 UTC