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The Department of the Interior and Local Government aims to gather up to 2 million signatures for Charter change that will be presented to Congress in July 2020.

One constitutional reform proposed by the DILG is the institutionalization of the Mandanas decision of the Supreme Court, which ruled that the source of the internal revenue allotments for local governments should be all national taxes, not only those collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, thus increasing the funds to be given to all regions.

It wants to transform the regional development council from a recommendatory body to a full-fledged regional development authority with powers and funds for programs that need no approval from Manila. It also backs calls to open the economy to more foreign investments and land ownership to spur economic activity and create more jobs.

As part of political reforms, the DILG is proposing the regulation of all political parties and banning political turncoatism.