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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday repeated his willingness to step down from office to give way to a new president as soon as the framework for a federal type of government had been crafted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I give you my word, if the framework is already there I will resign to give way to the new president,” Duterte said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He said he would not wait for his term to end if there would be an assurance that federalism would be fully implemented.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Accelerate federalism and let us find a configuration of government where the regions are more powerful,” Duterte said, addressing his remarks to Congress. “I will not wait for six years. Just hurry up.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His dream, Duterte said, had always been to give more power and capacity to local governments and to decentralize the national government.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This, he said, could spur locally-driven development programs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), for example, has a lot of potential for development, especially Liguasan Marsh, believed to have a large oil deposit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The trick and challenge would be for the Bangsamoro people to elect good officials that would lead their federal state, he said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“You elect men who are really honest, those who have fervor to help their fellow Moros,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He also appealed to the Moro people – including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) – to work together for peace and unite to lead their own region.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He also urged those who continue to wage war against the government to “stop it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the Abu Sayyaf and other terrorist groups, he said they should already stop the attacks – including bombing – so that development can take place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If they wouldn’t, he said he would gladly help them “go to the ISIS.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ll buy you a ticket,” Duterte added.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Things will improve and you will have your own share of development money,” Duterte said as he called for an end to hostilities in Mindanao.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Duterte said peace and progress can be achieved in Mindanao through the unity of the people along with the shift to federalism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“This is my dream for my country. This is my wish for Mindanao,” he added.</span><br />
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