Makabayan tags presidential pork as ‘greater election fund’
Makabayan tags presidential pork as ‘greater election fund’
“This is the true legacy of the President, billions of pork thrown away for electioneering while crumbs are made to fit for a pandemic response program as Filipinos reel from diseases and widespread hunger.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Members of the Makabayan bloc criticized the railroading of the proposed P576-billion ($11.543 billion) budget for the Office of the President’s (OP) for 2022, and tagged the lump sum appropriations as “greater election fund.”
Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas said that aside from the P8 billion proposed budget of the OP, there is P10 billion ($200 million) allocated for a new program called growth equity fund, which Brosas said, is a lump sum appropriation.
“This should be called a greater election fund to be used as a bribe to get votes for the President and his bet for the coming 2022 national elections,” the lawmaker said in a recent online presser.
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