Senate President Franklin Drilon said Saturday the abolition of the pork barrel would lead the country closer to the “straight path.”

“We [the Senate] laud the President for exercising political will over political patronage in handling the issue of PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund),” Drilon said, explaining how the decision would free the poor Filipinos from the practice of political debt and patronage.

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