SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte is eyeing the first elections under a federal government in 2022.

“The first federal elections should be set in 2022 because we can’t terminate the President’s contract with the people just because we have a new Constitution,” Alvarez told reporters on Wednesday in line with the Duterte administration’s push for Charter Change to pave the way for the shif.

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