SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte now wants the first elections under a federal government by 2022, when the President’s term ends.

Alvarez is leading the Duterte administration’s push for Charter change to pave the way for a shift to a federal system of government that will divide the country into different regions with greater autonomy and taxation powers.

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