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(PNA file photo) MANILA - There is no need to ask for special powers to ease inflation, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said Wednesday, noting that several interventions are already in place to manage the prices of basic commodities. Marcos made the remark a day after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that the country's headline inflation could surpass the 9 percent level in February because of high prices of cooking gas and key food items. "I do not think that it is necessary to ask for special powers," he said in a chance interview on the sidelines of an event at the Rizal Park, when asked if he is considering asking Congress to grant him special powers to curb inflation. "I already have the power to declare an emergency and to control the prices of commodities. So, I don't think there's any need for more than that. That is efficient," he added. On Tuesday, the BSP said the inflation rate in February may fall within the range of 8.5 to 9 ....
Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia (File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives must first declare a vacancy before special polls can be set, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Wednesday. Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia is referring to the congressional post of the first district of Valenzuela City after Representative Rex Gatchalian was appointed as the new head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). "The House of Representatives has to issue a Declaration of Vacancy to trigger and initiate the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct a special election otherwise the Congress can only appoint a caretaker,' the poll body chief said in a statement. "Comelec needs a trigger document to start the preparation process for the Special Election. This is the Declaration of Vacancy and call for Special Election by Congress," he added. On Tuesday, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. appointed Gatchalian to lead the DSWD, fo ....
PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. (Screengrab from PRO 3 Facebook live video) MANILA - Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. said the peace and order situation in the country is stable as he allayed public fear amid the reported abductions and killings in the past few weeks. Speaking at the Police Service anniversary celebration at the Police Regional Office 3 (Central Luzon) headquarters in Pampanga on Thursday, Azurin said the PNP's crime data has shown a steady decline in crime trends over 12 years since 2010. He said the Peace and Order Indicator or the sum of both index and non-index crime cases has been decreasing since the start of the administration of the late president Benigno Aquino III. "A decrease of 5.85 percent is noted comparing President PNoy and President (Rodrigo) Duterte's administration. Likewise, a decrease of 45.24 percent is recorded in PBBM's (President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s) administration as ....
Acting presidential spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - The Duterte administration is continuously addressing the long-standing pleas of farmers and indigenous peoples (IPs) for genuine land reform, Malacanang said Thursday. This, after labor leader and presidential candidate Leodegario "Ka Leody" de Guzman called on the government to address land grabbing which has led to mass exodus of IPs from their ancestral lands. "President Rodrigo Roa Duterte remains committed to delivering genuine agrarian reform in the country," acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said in a press statement. Citing government data, Andanar said the administration distributed 229,289 hectares of agricultural lands from July 2016 to May 2021, benefitting 166,217 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries. He said the government also issued 57 Certificates of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs), covering 993,345.17 hectares of ancestral domains, which benef ....
(File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expected to come up next week with recalibrated guidelines, particularly on the issuance of rally permits during the campaign period, an official said on Thursday. Commissioner George Erwin Garcia said he has proposed to rectify the guidelines of the Comelec Campaign Committee (CCC) as there are issues that he found to be a burden to the candidates. "Based on my experience, asking for a CCC permit is really a big issue. There is already the city or municipal permit. But I was able to see the goodness of the idea of CCC. They crafted at a time when the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) (cases) were very high," he said in a phone interview. Garcia added that what he proposed is to relax the requirements depending on an area's alert level classification. "But at the moment, we are at level 1 and improving. I said, let's not abolish but let us recalibrate. How, when at levels 1, 2, 3 there is a specific ....