The 16 million votes that catapulted Rodrigo Duterte to Malacanang in May 2016 are seen representing three challenges he has to face--criminality, illegal drugs, traffic congestion, red tape and corruption; peace in Muslim Mindanao and with the National Democratic Front (NDF); and development.

These challenges, according to Christian Monsod, a lawyer and regarded as an expert in government, politics and economics, cannot be hurdled through federalism alone.

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