What’s wrong with Akbayan Rep?
By Danilo V. Adorador III, Leila Salaverria
Surigao del Norte First District Rep. Francisco Matugas on Thursday defended Akbayan party-list Rep. Kaka Bag-ao’s designation as caretaker of Dinagat Islands.
Surigao del Norte First District Rep. Francisco Matugas on Thursday defended Akbayan party-list Rep. Kaka Bag-ao’s designation as caretaker of Dinagat Islands.
Though some of her colleagues in the House of Representatives are branding it “patronage politics,” Akbayan Rep. Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao on Wednesday defended her role as a conduit for funds for pork projects in Dinagat Island, saying any benefit it may have to her run for the district’s congressional seat next year was only “incidental.”
Dinagat’s legal status as a province may have been finally settled by the Supreme Court with finality, but the new province is bracing for a political showdown brewing among the members of its prominent political family—the Ecleos.
