The recent pronouncements by the current Philippine government represented by GMA, if the papers were to be believed that "Federalism" is the way forward" for the future of Philippine governance, decidedly bring out to all and sundry the "modus vivendi" of the Philippine Negotiating Panel in the conduct of the latest GRP-MILF negotiations. The creation and establishment of the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity is a giant step in the grand plan of the Philippine government to change the nature of governance- from democratic republicanism to federalism.
While the idea of federalism is a pleasant wind to arrive in the marketplace of ideas given Manila's stranglehold of national decision making processes that affect the far-flung barangays of the Republic, such a deep and profound constitutional change in the ethos and character of the general Filipino politic demands prudence and circumspection.
Perhaps, "Federalism" would be the Filipino's "Holy Grail" in his dire quest for peace, balance, and equality.
Federalism is probably a most appropriate system of governance for the myriad and often conflicting ideas of how different indigenous peoples in the Philippines politically conduct themselves, merging customs, traditions, and the law. And the best means to effect the change is through a constitutional convention. Measures must also be implemented so that the present governmental dispensation must not in any way benefit from it.
But then, is now the time to do so?
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