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Ping Lacson to Make Sure Education Won’t be Denied Top Priority in Budget

Education will not be denied the top priority in the national budget as mandated in the 1987 Constitution, and Senate re-electionist Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson will make sure of that.

Lacson said in a television interview Thursday that this becomes more urgent in the wake of findings from the Department of Education that more than 18 million Filipinos may be functionally illiterate.

“I will make sure that the Constitution will be followed as far as giving the education sector top priority in the budget is concerned,” he said in Filipino in an interview on NET25.

Related: Ping Lacson, Sisiguraduhin na Hindi Masingitan ang Edukasyon sa Budget

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Ping: On the Palace’s Review of the Proposed 2025 Budget

In an interview on NET25, Ping Lacson answers questions on:
* Palace review of the 2025 budget
* Funds for education, PhilHealth, and AKAP

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Reconvening the Bicam to Correct the Constitutional Issue in the 2025 Budget

While we respect the President’s sole authority whether or not to exercise his veto power on the recently legislated 2025 national budget, the Constitution, specifically Article XIV Sec 5 (5) is unequivocal in giving “education the highest budgetary priority.”

With that being said, in choosing not to veto, he can still correct this constitutional infirmity by appealing to Congress to reconvene the bicameral conference and rectify the budget imbalance between the education and infrastructure sectors and be compliant with the 1987 Constitution, while the Enrolled Bill is not yet submitted for his signature and approval.

I believe it will not take one whole day to do it.

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On the Slash in the DepEd’s Budget

Only the President can save the Constitution from becoming wastebasket-bound by exercising his line item veto power once the Enrolled Bill lands on his desk.

How so? The bicameral conference committee reduced the DepEd budget to P737 billion and increased that of the DPWH to P1.113 trillion.

This blatantly violates Art XIV Sec 5(5) which declares that “The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.”

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Ping agrees: Robin Padilla’s charter change petition before SC premature [ABS-CBN News]

From ABS-CBN News: Former Senator Panfilo Lacson echoes Senate President Francis Escudero’s position that the petition filed by Senator Robin Padilla asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether or not the Senate and the House of Representatives have to vote together or not when amending the Constitution is ill timed.

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