MANILA, Philippines – Former Communications Assistant Secretary Esther Margaux “Mocha” Uson is back in the Duterte administration as deputy administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). According to the list of presidential appointees as of September 26 and released Monday, the pro-administration blogger was appointed last September 23, 2019, as Deputy Executive Director V (Deputy Administrator) of OWWA, an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment. ADVERTISEMENTThe controversial official resigned from her post in the Presidential Communications Operations Office on October 3, 2018. READ: Mocha resigns | Source says Duterte fired Mocha but Palace insists she resignedUson later ran in the recent May 2019 midterm elections as a representative of AA Kasosyo party-list but lost. But Panelo said there’s a Commission on Elections resolution that ruled party-list nominees are not covered by the one year ban.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 30, 2019 05:00 UTC