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Lacson: Allocable Is The New Pork Barrel

“Allocable” is the new pork barrel.

Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson bared this on Tuesday after scrutinizing documents related to the 2025 national budget, which he described as “corrupt to the core.”

Lacson said the “allocables” were in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), and allows the funding of projects before they are identified.

“Bakit nauuna ang funding bago i-identify ang mga projects? Di ba dapat, projects muna saka hahanapan ng funding (Why does the funding come first before the projects are identified? Shouldn’t the projects be identified first before funding is allocated for them)?” Lacson, an eagle-eyed watchdog of the national budget. said in his interpellation of the 2026 budget bill. “Hindi ba dapat may items na galing sa regional development council bago pondohan? Nauna ang pagpondo saka lang hahanapan ng items sa NEP (Shouldn’t there be items from the regional development council before the funding? In this case, the funding came first before the identification of projects in the NEP).”

In Filipino: Lacson: Allocable ang Bagong Pork Barrel

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Realigning P20B from ‘Skeleton Projects’ to Help Typhoon Victims

“2021 national budget: I am determined to amend and realign around P20B for the rehab and reconstruction of LGU’s hard hit by recent calamities to be sourced from the P68B allocations for those corrupt-ridden, skeleton multi-purpose building projects that I exposed last week.” – Sen. Ping Lacson on Twitter, Nov. 16, 2020

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Interpellation on the General Principles of the P4.1-Trillion Proposed 2020 Budget

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“I just hope we won’t have any more reenacted budget. As we all know by now, it is the economy that is suffering. Having said that, I have some issues and concerns that need to be clarified. If the sponsor is willing to accommodate just a few points I’d like to raise.” – Sen. Lacson’s opening statement at his interpellation (general principles) on the proposed 2020 budget.

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Interpellation of the Solar Para sa Bayan Corp. franchise bill

“Kailangan pa ba ng franchise ang Solar Para Sa Bayan Corp.? Ayon sa batas, hindi. Kaya bakit?”

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“If we grant them the franchise, they will have exclusive right to operate in those areas. Therefore, they will deny other qualified third parties so they will go through competitive process. If that’s the case why do we need a franchise for SPSB?”

“If they have to go through a competitive process, we might as well disregard the franchise. May competitive process, anyway. Why would we still grant a franchise? There’s no need.”

“My other issue is, are we not establishing a precedent in passing this bill? Iniiba natin ang nature ng franchise. (W)e’re actually amending EPIRA. Sabi kanina ng sponsor iba ang definition ng unviable sa unserved and underserved. If that’s the case we’re amending the EPIRA law.”

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Interpellation of the DPWH budget for 2019

During the interpellation of the DPWH’s budget for 2019, Sen. Lacson raised the following issues:
* the addition of P75 billion in the DPWH’s budget in the National Expenditure Program, without the DPWH’s knowledge
* woes of landowners whose lots were affected by DPWH projects with right-of-way components
* some data of the DPWH website being inaccessible when the DPWH’s budget is up for deliberation

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