Amid the pronouncement of oil price rollback this week, Anakpawis party-list group has expressed concern that petroleum prices in the country are still higher compared to the fuel cost during the peak of the Ukraine crisis last March.
Anakpawis party-list group said the increase in the minimum wage in Metro Manila is too small that these cannot even offset the inflation or pull up the real value of the minimum wage.
Anakpawis party-list on Monday called on lawmakers to “decisively carry out the patriotic act” and hold a special session to address oil price increases.
Members of the Makabayan bloc have jointly filed a resolution seeking a congressional investigation on the arrest of Anakpawis party-list nominee Isabelo Adviento in Nueva Vizcaya.
Anakpawis party-list on Thursday said that the reported 200,000 increase in the number of unemployed Filipinos justifies the grant of P10,000 financial assistance to poor families.
Progressive party-list groups use public funds to support communist rebels, President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday.
Pro-labor Senatorial bet wants to support Pacquiao in the Presidential bid.
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez suspects that the Makabayan partylist lawmakers “either directly or indirectly benefit” from the so-called revolutionary tax imposed by New People’s Army rebels in the countryside.
The Makabayan bloc assailed President Rodrigo Duterte for “vilifying and intimidating” the office of the Ombudsman from doing its constitutional mandate to investigate the alleged hidden and ill-gotten wealth of the President.
Makabayan bolts House majority coalition, forms new independent bloc
