The incoming Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) president and general manager, veteran banker Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso, said it will be an honor for him to join the Marcos administration. “It is an honor to be invited to join the government and serve under the administration of President
Thirty-six years after Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his family fled the Philippines amid a popular revolution that forced him out of power, his son and namesake will return to Malacañang a Chief Executive elected by more than 31 million Filipinos. The 64-year-old Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Thursday took his oath as the 17th President of the Philippines.
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Solicitor General Jose Calida and Philippine National Bank president and CEO Jose Arnulfo "Wick" Veloso MANILA - President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has bared his picks for chairperson of the Commission on Audit (COA) and president and general manager for the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). This was announced Wednesday by incoming Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles in a press conference. Marcos nominated outgoing Solicitor General Jose Calida as chairperson of the COA, a constitutional commission. Calida, who served as one of the campaign managers of outgoing President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, was Justice Undersecretary during the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2004. He was also concurrent executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board from January to October 2004. Calida graduated with a bachelor's degree in English at the Ateneo de Davao University in 1969, and his law degree at the Ateneo Law School in 1