THE ABOLITION of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) --the lone agency mandated to recover the ill-gotten wealth of the late president Ferdinand Marcos and his family -- will pave the way for the Duterte administration to clear the Marcoses of plunder, the opposition group at the House of Representatives said on Thursday.

The Makabayan bloc party-list lawmakers from Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Kabataan and Anakpawis issued the warning after House Bill 7376, a measure that will abolish the PCGG and transfer all of its functions to the Office of the Solicitor General, was passed on third reading this week.

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