THE HOUSE of Representatives plans to name an unprecedented 12 deputy speakers, and justified this as part of a “dry run” ahead of a plan to shift to a federal form of government.

Each deputy speaker will roughly correspond to the 11 federal states and an independent capital envisioned by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte, a key pointman of President Rodrigo Duterte in the push for federalism through a revision of the 1987 Constitution, said House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas of Ilocos Norte.

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