A LAW dean who served as a member of a Constitutional Commission to amend the 1987 charter under former president Rodrigo Duterte said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should consider including federalism as part of the agenda of a hybrid constitutional convention (con-con) being proposed in Congress.

San Beda University Graduate School of Law dean and The Manila Times columnist Fr. Ranhilio Aquino said in a recorded interview with the Times that he is "definitely" in favor of the federal form of government.

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