DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana joined the growing number of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet secretaries who expressed reservations about the Philippines shift to a federal form of government, saying that the country was “not ready."

“We are not yet ready because we need maybe more education to the people for them to understand what [federalism] is for,” Lorenzana told reporters in a press briefing late Thursday.

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