MANILA, Philippines— Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday vowed to oppose “tooth and nail” the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) next year, as he warned that the 2022 national appropriation could be used as a “huge campaign kitty.”
“We should be more vigilant. The 2022 budget is an election budget. We must not allow the budget to be used for election or partisan political activities,” Drilon said in a statement.
While the government has yet to submit to Congress the proposed national budget next year, Drilon is already anticipating that the anti-insurgency task force would seek bigger fundings for barangays “in an ele…
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