A planned shift to a federal form of government for the Philippines by incoming President Rodrigo Duterte may have a good chance in Congress, given an apparently emerging consensus in both houses, Camarines Sur Representative-elect Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte said.

Villafuerte issued the statement in reaction to a news report quoting outgoing Senate President Franklin Drilon as saying that more senators in the incoming Congress favor constitutional reform.

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