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MANILA - A party-list lawmaker on Thursday said the next president should make anti-corruption his or her defining platform and certify as urgent the enactment of the long-overdue Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. Citizens' Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) Party-List Representative and House Deputy Speaker Bro. Eddie Villanueva made the remark following the country's score decline in the recently released 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). With a score of 33 on a scale where 100 means a country is perceived clean while 0 is seen as highly corrupt the Philippines ranked 117th out of 180 countries included in the 2021 CPI conducted by international watchdog Transparency International. This standing is a point lower and two notches drop than 2020's score and ranking which is 34 and 115th, respectively. VIllanueva described corruption as "anti-jobs, anti-health and anti-poor" because it steals government funds intended to provide Filipinos with employment,