February 24, 2021 PASIG City Mayor Vico Sotto has been selected as one of 12 global anti-corruption champions by the United States Department of State.
Sotto, 31, was cited for his commitment to transparency initiatives both as a Pasig city councilor and as mayor.
As a Pasig City councilor in 2018, Sotto spent a month at the Des Moines Public Information Board in Des Moines, Iowa, as part of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Professional Fellows Program in the United States.
“He used this experience to help him design and pass Pasig’s first freedom of information legislation when he returned to the Philippines,” the US Embassy in the Philippines said in a statement.
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