Career Executive Service Board's Public Leaders' Summit (Photo courtesy of CESB) MANILA - The Marcos administration will appoint public managers based on their merit and fitness to do their government functions and not at all about political connections. At the 3rd Public Leaders' Summit (PLS) conducted by the Career Executive Service Board (CESB) last week, Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez said public managers must enhance their strategic thinking skills, practice foresight, act with agility, behave with integrity, and "unite as one public servant with purpose". "The President yearns for a decent future for all Filipinos and nothing less," Rodriguez said in his speech at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City. He emphasized that without the help of career executive service officers (CESO), the vision of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration won't be achievable. "You (the CESOs) will set the tone for the o
POSTPONED. Senate Majority Leader Miguel Zubiri suggests deferring the deliberations of the Commission on Appointments Committee on Constitutional Commission and Offices during a panel meeting on Monday (May 30, 2022). He suggested that the next administration be given a hand in appointing officials. (Photo courtesy of Senate PRIB) MANILA - The confirmation hearing of five applicants for various government posts should be deferred until the new administration takes over so it will have a hand in selecting the officials it want to work with. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday cited a similar suggestion in February 2016 by former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, saying then-President Benigno Aquino III should no longer appoint officials whose terms will outgrow his. Two Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials and five ambassadors were bypassed by the Commission on Appointments (CA) at the time. "I will tell you, ambassadors deployed abroad are representatives of the P
The Comelec Employees’ Union, with a 5,000-membership of rank-and-file employees, in a statement dated May 18 is endorsing Pangarungan to the congressional Commission on Appointments after Pangarungan was able to “effectively ‘rally the troops’” for the recently concluded polls despite the pandemic.
The congressional Commission on Appointments, which is tasked with vetting presidential appointees, on Wednesday suspended proceedings to allow members to focus on elections work.