Proposing projects for nat’l funding not illegal – Drilon

SENATE President pro-tempore Franklin Drilon on Monday admitted that he submitted his proposed project hoping that it would be funded in the 2017 national budget but insisted that there is nothing illegal about it since the proposal was made before the passage of the General Appropriations Act (GAA).

“It’s less than P300 million but I submitted. I’m not ashamed of it. It’s up to the President to review it,” Drilon said when interviewed by reporters after attending the meeting with members of the France Southeast Asia Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group at Sofitel in Pasay City.