Local Governments, Civil Society, Democratization, and Development 129 Source: GalingPook Founda on List of Awardees, 1994-2010 Table 7. Total number of LGUs per level and % of GalingPook Awardees from 1994-2010 Three restrictions Decentralization's fulllment of its vaunted objectives—of local governments that efciently use and mobilize resources to efciently deliver services and create an environment that would support local development—has been restricted by three aws—statutory, organizational, and systemic. Statutory aws There are two16 worth discussing. The rst is the result of the nonimplementation of sectoral representation in the local legislative councils. The specic provisions that have been the source of contention are Sections 41 and 446 of the LGC. Though these provisions call for sectoral representation (with three sectoral representatives) both had the phrase “as may be provided by law.” Given the lack of an enabling law, the League of Municipalities and the Philippine Councilors League led their opposition to the election of sectoral representatives in 1992 (Cubol 1993). In response, in 1993, a case was led by sectoral representatives with the Supreme Court to compel the COMELEC to set the date and call for the elections of sectoral representatives to the Sanggunian. The case was subsequently dismissed by the Supreme Court as it declared that there was no “justiciable controversy” (Agra 1997). Thus, despite the fact that one city, Naga City, already passed an ordinance that secures sectoral representation, the election of sectoral representatives to the Sanggunian remains unfullled. The second aw lies in the scal provisions in the LGC, which are found to be archaic and limiting. As noted by Guevara (2004):