Duterte names Abuel acting Budget chief
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:06:15 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte appointed Budget Undersecretary Janet Abuel as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Malacañang said on Tuesday.
In a statement, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte announced Abuel’s appointment at the start of the Cabinet meeting in Malacañang on Monday.
“Yesterday night’s Cabinet meeting began with the President’s announcement of the appointment of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Officer-in-Charge / Undersecretary Janet Abuel as Acting Secretary,” Panelo said.
Abuel, a lawyer and a certified public accountant, was first named officer-in-charge (OIC) of the DBM on March 5 after Duterte appointed then Budget chief Benjamin Diokno as Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor.
She was promoted as DBM assistant secretary and eventually as undersecretary in 2018.
A Bar topnotcher, Abuel holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, and a master of laws degree from the University of Sydney in Australia.
When she was named to lead the DBM as OIC, the Palace said Abuel got the top post due to competence, integrity, and expertise.
Among Abuel’s first acts as temporary head of the department was the issuance of National Budget Circular 575, which prescribes the guidelines on the release of funds for the fourth tranche of pay increase for state workers.
This is pursuant to the Executive Order 76 signed by the President to use the reenacted 2018 national budget to ensure funding for the salary increase amid the delay in the passage of the 2019 General Appropriations Act. CATHERINE S. VALENTE
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