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Youth group to Imee Marcos: We still know what you did last…

August 23, 2018 admin House of Representatives, Imee Marcos, Kabataan party list, Latest News Stories, local news, Makabayan bloc, Nation, news, Philippine news updates, politics, revise history, revisionism, Sarah Elago

The millennials still know what you did back then, Manang.

A youth leader in the House of Representatives on Thursday hurled back at Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos for claiming that the younger generation of Filipinos have “moved on” from her father’s two decades of tyrannical rule, a dark period in Philippine history marked by massive human rights violations and corruption.

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Reduced budgets for social services, enterprises assailed

August 15, 2018 admin 2019 national budget, Budget Cuts, cash-based system, Latest News Stories, Makabayan bloc, Nation, obligation-based budget, Rodrigo Duterte

Whether it’s cash-based or obligation-based, the Makabayan bloc of party-list congressmen in the House of Representatives is rejecting President Rodrigo Duterte’s P3.76-trillion budget for 2019 because of the huge cuts in the appropriations for social services and productive enterprises.

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