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President Duterte bared the names of former and current lawmakers who allegedly received kickbacks from the government’s public works projects.
They were in the list provided by the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) that supposedly cropped up from its investigation, although Duterte admitted he has no evidence of such allegations.
“Ang sa akin, ang tanong ko nga, kung wala namang hard evidence, bakit kailangang pangalanan?” she asked during her radio show, “BISErbisyong Leni.”
(For me, my question is, why should they be named if there was no hard evidence?)
The vice president said that a thorough investigation should be conducted to prove the lawmakers are indeed guilty of corruption.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 13) Was Senator Imee Marcos behind the move to waive poll safeguards in the 2021 General Appropriations Bill? For vice presidential spokesperson Barry Gutierrez, it would be ironic for the Senate electoral reforms chair to do so, if such claims were true.
On Sunday s episode of the radio show Biserbisyong Leni, Gutierrez referred to an Inquirer report which named Marcos as the one who inserted a provision authorizing the Commission on Elections to disregard requirements and safeguards provided under Section 12 of the Automated Election Law. The report cited various sources from the House of Representatives and Senate who tagged the lawmaker.