Federalism push now both a farce and tragedy

MARLEN V.RONQUILLO

Political scientists and constitutional experts are now writing, either with sadness or frustration, or both, on the great unravelling of the move to shift the form of government from a unitary government to a federal one. First to unravel was the farce, the fact that all the three drafts on how to carry out the grandest and the most ambitious political restructuring of the new century do not even have the elements that are needed most — clarity and sound constitutional stools.