HOUSE Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte wants to abolish all barangay (village) councils, as well as the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) or youth council, calling them “useless.”

Alvarez made the statement after his announcement last week that Congress would postpone the village and youth elections, set on October, to 2017.

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