MANILA, Philippines—The spokespersons of a government counterinsurgency task force—Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade and Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy—are to keep their positions but faced a review after legislators took offense at the officials’ controversial comments on community pantries and the task force’s P19-billion budget for 2021, according to a high-ranking task force official.
At least 15 senators crossed party lines to denounce Parlade for commenting that senators were “stupid” for threatening to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Eclac) because the senators had approved of the task force’s P19-billion funding un…
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