GPB not another form of PDAF, Palace insists

MALACAÑANG on Monday said the proposed Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) that accounts for around P20 billion in funds for local government units (LGUs) is not a resurrection of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel, which had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (SC).

Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. denied a report by The Manila Times that President Benigno Aquino 3rd defied the SC by retaining pork barrel funds in the national budget under another name--GPB.