Castro urges Marcos to focus on pro-people bills in 2nd year of office

ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to focus on pro-people legislation for his second year in office, noting that only two of several laws enacted during his first year would favor the masses. | GabrielLaluINQ

. If enacted, the bill would condone the debts of 610,054 agrarian reform beneficiaries , amounting to P57.55 billion.

The Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers on the other hand was passed by the House in December 2022. “Additionally, the allocation of an equivalent of 6% of the GDP to education and the provision of free land to our farmers should be top priorities. These are the needs of the people, not new taxes or the Maharlika Investment Fund,” she said.

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