PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has been asked by a lawmaker at the House of Representatives to certify as urgent a measure providing a P420-billion economic stimulus.

Marikina City 2nd District Rep. Stella Luz Quimbo, author of the proposed “Bayanihan to Arise as One Act” (Bayanihan 3), said in a press conference on Wednesday that the economy has "turned for the worse" and there was need for Congress and the Executive "to work together" to recover.

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