MANILA, Philippines — Will President Rodrigo Duterte get his promised “sackloads of cash” for PDP-Laban bets for the 2022 elections from the P40-billion funding requested by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac)? ADVERTISEMENT“It was Duterte himself who said that he would bring sacks of money for PDP-Laban candidates. It appears that he was referring to the BDP [Barangay Development Program] fund of the NTF-Elcac that they would want to really bloat in the 2022 national budget,” Gaite said in Filipino. “We will really be on the lookout against this thick-faced [he used ‘kapalmuks’] request for P40 billion. During the PDP-Laban’s national assembly last Saturday, July 17, Duterte vowed to bring “sackloads of cash,” to support the party’s candidates in their campaign for the 2022 elections.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 21, 2021 15:56 UTC