In an interview on NET25, Ping Lacson answers questions on:
* Palace review of the 2025 budget
* Funds for education, PhilHealth, and AKAP
Continue reading “Ping: On the Palace’s Review of the Proposed 2025 Budget”
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Tag: 1987 Constitution
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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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.”
Continue reading “On the Slash in the DepEd’s Budget”
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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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This is one of many reasons why Chiz deserves to be Senate President. In simpler language that non-lawyers like me can understand better, what he is saying is, there is no cause of action. The timing is off.
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