MALACAÑANG on Saturday said it respects the decision of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to hold more mass actions against the Bureau of Customs' (BoC) plans to tighten rules on balikbayan boxes.

On Friday, the militant labor group Migrante said OFWs would turn the “Zero Remittance Day” into a “Zero Vote” campaign against administration candidates in the coming 2016 elections in response to the bureau’s policy on balikbayan boxes.

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