MANILA: Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office this week looking to end the domination of “Imperial Manila” with a radical shift to federalism that he says is vital to fighting poverty and ending a deadly Muslim separatist insurgency.
Duterte, who won last month’s elections in a landslide, has vowed to have the constitution rewritten to achieve his bold plans, which would see power devolved from the central government in the capital to newly created states governing the current 81 provinces.
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