HOUSE Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez wants the two houses of Congress convened as a Constituent Assembly in January to finally switch to a federal system of government.

Overhauling the 1987 Constitution will be the priority of Congress next year, the Davao del Norte representative said in a radio interview.

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