Ej Lopez
Ej Lopez

The recent Supreme Court declaration of the unconstitutionality of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), or pork barrel, has put to rest the question of the legislature’s authority to have the fund under their control. Whereas, prior to its scandalous deposition, everyone in the legislative and the executive branches of government were justifying its existence and utilization, but later on after the “deafening” public outcry of the “suspected misuse” of PDAaF, everyone was singing a different tune, short of saying that they are now shouting to the high heavens of the ill effects of PDAF; a complete reversal of their previous position (that is how politics work in this country).

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