Despite PNoy’s ‘deceptive’ announcement, sectoral groups to protest vs pork barrel on Aug. 26
An attempt to dampen the burgeoning protest movement against the pork barrel. This was how progressive groups described President Aquino’s press conference supposedly announcing the “abolition” of discretionary funds allotted for legislators called the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or more popularly called “pork barrel”. The umbrella organization, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), criticized the Aquino’s […]