President Aquino last Friday announced during a Cabinet meeting that Budget Secretary Florencio Abad had tendered his resignation but that he rejected it.

Abad’s resignation was seen by some as a move to save the Pnoy administration from further criticisms over the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) issue.

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