There is a right way for the government to fix the lives of Filipinos without passing new regulations that only result in a worse situation, according to Partido Reporma presidential candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.
He said it would be more appropriate for the national government to provide programs that train their skills to Filipinos, especially officers and staff who serve in various government agencies and local governments.
“It’s called capacity building. Let’s capacitate ‘those municipalities that are a bit lacking, that is, incapacitated-help,” Lacson said so that everyone can feel the significant change.
The presidential candidate has already done this when he learned that some local government units (LGUs) do not have planning officers in their respective towns with adequate training for long-term community planning.
In his limited tenure as rehabilitation czar of the Aquino administration for the damage left behind by Super Typhoon ‘Yolanda’, Lacson helped send some LGU officers to the Local Government Academy or Development Academy of the Philippines.
This gave 161 community planners the opportunity to learn how to create and implement plans for long-term development, Lacson said.
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This was also done with the help of his collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which provided a $ 10 million study grant. It benefited 171 LGU employees for their implemented plan for rehabilitation and recovery after the ‘Yolanda’ hit.
“You know the problem because the intervention of our national government is in regulation, it is overregulated. The intervention needed is positive, ”Lacson told 2,600 supporters in Mawab, Davao de Oro whom he interviewed along with running mate Senate President Vicente“ Tito ”Sotto III and senatorial candidates of the Reform Party.
Further, he also said that there is a need for better collaboration with the private sector instead of treating companies as competitors. An example of this, according to Lacson, is the government’s restrictions on large corporations that want to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some allegedly approached the Lacson-Sotto tandem, as senators, to offer help to buy vaccines for their workers. But according to the presidential bet of the Reform Party, the government emphatically rejected them on several occasions.
“There are many of them-SM, ICTSI, San Miguel-they all volunteer. Imagine that offer. The national government said, ‘No. We are the only ones who can procure. You, you will pass us. ’Disincentive. E if they allow? Maybe we have vaccinated so many Filipinos for a long time. It seems that the treatment of non-citizens of the Republic of the Philippines is the employees of big companies, ”Lacson said.
He said the same thing happened for wealthy LGUs such as in Metro Manila due to the national government’s insistence on having a tripartite agreement with the pharmaceutical companies that make the COVID vaccine before distributing it to Filipinos.
That is why under their leadership, the Lacson-Sotto tandem targets “Fix the Government, Fix the Lives of Filipinos” and “Consume the Thief” in this 2022 Election.

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