The Pimentel Proposal

Written on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm | by The Jester-in-Exile

The proposed Federal Republic of the Philippines.

 

Please refer to page 4, line 17 of the Pimentel Proposal for further details.

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9 Responses to “The Pimentel Proposal”

  1. The EQualizer on August 15th, 2008 5:57 pm

    “Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bringing gifts”.

  2. Dean Jorge Bocobo on August 15th, 2008 6:37 pm

    The United States of the Philippines, eh? Hmmm, starting with Ilokoslovakia we shall have to find better names for them…And I insist on Bangsamorostan…

  3. The Jester-in-Exile on August 15th, 2008 6:54 pm

    come now, DJB, it’s cordilocoslovakia. :D

  4. cocoy on August 15th, 2008 9:17 pm

    djb… =)) on Bangsamorostan.

  5. cocoy on August 15th, 2008 9:19 pm

    oh, browsed through it. The Pimentel Proposal looks crappy.

  6. The Folly of Good Intensions | Filipino Voices on August 18th, 2008 10:39 am

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  7. Tax Joven on September 30th, 2008 3:49 pm

    It is a formula for chaos and economic hardships. It breaks up existing regional harmony, sows the seed of inter-provincial conflicts within a state, and nurtures secessionist ideas.

  8. Tax Joven on October 5th, 2008 8:24 am

    Will a cha-cha cure the imperfection of our Charter? Or will it make its own? Federalism will not promote local autonomy. It will stifle it!

  9. Suan Macabalen on October 22nd, 2008 4:06 pm

    Many or most of the suggested states are artificial and do not reflect cultural or historical realities. Central Luzon, for instance, is an artificial entity to which no one would owe loyalty. The Tagalog and Ilocano portions should be transferred to their respective states, while the Kapampangan portion, 27% of the population, should be constituted into a separate state. According to Dr. Rene Azurin:”But, of the proposed eleven (or so) federal states, no more than a few - like the Cebuano state or the Pampangueno-Tarlaqueno state - would actually be able to stand on their own financially.”
    (Azurin, Rene. On Decentralizing Government, p. 5. Paper presented at the Dialogues on Federalism. Center for Local and Regional Governance, NCPAG, UP Diliman, Quezon City, 3 August 2007. Originally published in the book Stationary Bandits: Essays in Political Power, also by Dr. Azurin. Platypus Press, 2007).

    The Kapampangan Region has a sufficiently large area and population to become a federal state. Kapampangan-majority areas - Pampanga province, plus the highly urbanized city of Angeles, the Tarlac towns of Bamban, Capas and Concepcion, and the city of Tarlac - together registered a population of 2,398,144 in 2000 (it would be even larger if historically Kapampangan areas, like adjoining areas of Bataan and Nueva Ecija where Kapampangan is still spoken, are included). This is larger than that of the Cordillera and Caraga regions (1,365,412 and 2,095,367, respectively, in 2000) and nearly as large as that of the ARMM (2,412,159 in 2000). Its area (3,424.68 sq km) is much bigger than that of Metro Manila (636 sq km), a separate region and a proposed autonomous entity in a federal system. Moreover, it is larger in area and population than at least 26 independent countries, including Barbados, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius and Seychelles, and in population than another 26 including Brunei, Cyprus, Estonia, Fiji, Gabon, Guyana and Swaziland. It is larger in area than both Singapore and the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.

    Of the eight major language groups, only Kapampangans and Pangasinenses do not have regions of their own, and consequently, only the two have not been given separate states in most proposals for federalization.

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