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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) so far identified 750,000 households that will replace the graduate-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), said Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Friday, Feb. 10.
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Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia (File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives must first declare a vacancy before special polls can be set, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Wednesday. Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia is referring to the congressional post of the first district of Valenzuela City after Representative Rex Gatchalian was appointed as the new head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). "The House of Representatives has to issue a Declaration of Vacancy to trigger and initiate the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct a special election otherwise the Congress can only appoint a caretaker,' the poll body chief said in a statement. "Comelec needs a trigger document to start the preparation process for the Special Election. This is the Declaration of Vacancy and call for Special Election by Congress," he added. On Tuesday, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. appointed Gatchalian to lead the DSWD, fo
Former Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tuflo (File photo) MANILA - President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Monday said he still wants to keep former Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin Tulfo in his administration, noting that he still wanted to take advantage of his "good instincts." In an interview with select reporters in Malacanang Palace, Marcos shot down speculations that Tulfo would be named one of his advisers. "No, that's not been part of the plan for Erwin. We have other plans for him, not as a presidential adviser," he said. He bared that he is still trying to find out what position he would be giving Tulfo after he was bypassed by the Commission on Appointments (CA) for a second time due to citizenship issues and previous libel convictions. "Whatever we say, difficulties he faced with the committee on appointments or the CA, the time that he was running the DSWD, he did a very good job. So