OPPOSITION Sen. Nancy Binay is convinced that the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) introduced by Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in the proposed 2015 budget shows similarities with the pork barrel system that was declared illegal by the Supreme Court last year.

Binay on Tuesday said she believes that the GPB, formerly known as the Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB), is unclear and discretionary, flaws that need to be addressed by the executive to prove that the new budgeting scheme is not an attempt to circumvent the SC’s ruling on the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel.

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