Tag: President Bongbong Marcos

Statements July 14, 2024July 13, 2024

On the Urgency for Congress to Refile and Pass the ‘Designated Survivor’ Bill

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On July 22, the President will deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA). The Senate President will be there, and so is the Speaker of the House. Including the Vice President, the line of succession stops at the House Speaker.

Without passing judgement on the ability of our country’s security forces to do their job well – God forbid – if the 2007 bombing of Batasang Pambansa that killed Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar and a staffer of Gabriela party-list Rep Luzviminda Ilagan would happen again with the direst of consequences, without an enabling law to comply with Sections 7 and 8, Art VII of the 1987 Constitution, we will have a leadership vacuum and a constitutional crisis.

This is exactly the reason why I filed Senate Bill No. 982 in August 2019. I hope it can be refiled and passed by the present Congress.

God bless the Philippines.

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Statements, Videos July 11, 2024July 12, 2024

On the Vice President as ‘Designated Survivor’

This is a rhetorical statement but a good soundbite nevertheless. She is the constitutional successor to the President not needing an appointment as the designated survivor, which by the way is still a pending legislative measure in Congress.

Not only is it a serious matter. The 1987 Constitution actually provides that Congress pass a law in this regard. And for good reason – the line of succession stops at the Speaker of the House of Representatives. God forbid, under an extremely exceptional event that a terrorist attack had wiped out all the 4 highest elected officials, we could have a leadership, hence a constitutional crisis.

In August 2019, I filed Senate Bill 982 to extend the line of succession beyond that of the Speaker. Unfortunately, the bill didn’t even reach the plenary debates in the Upper Chamber. Worse, its counterpart bill in the House (HB 4062) was withdrawn by its author.

Statements April 11, 2024April 24, 2024

On the PBBM Administration’s Actions on Wang-Wang

Thank you for Administrative Order No. 18 (2024), Malacañang.

Statements December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

On the President’s Travel Funds for 2024

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Arguably, the president is still the best salesperson of any country. The foreign affairs secretary and the members of the economic Cabinet cluster come only as second or third.

That being said, pledges are not investments until the actual money inflows happen. That is the only time when Malacañang can flaunt the impact of the foreign trips of the president. Then, we celebrate and count the cost-effectiveness of those foreign trips.

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PING LACSON

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