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Allies of former President Rodrigo Duterte and a non-government organization filed criminal and graft complaints Monday against Speaker Martin Romualdez and five others over alleged billions worth of insertions in the 2025 national budget .Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, PDP-Laban senatorial bet Atty. Jimmy Bondoc, Atty. Ferdinand Topacio, Citizens Crime Watch president Diego Magpantay, and Atty.
Quimbo earlier confirmed the existence of blank items in the bicameral report, but explained that the funding for such items had been identified before the signing of the report.President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., meanwhile, has repeatedly denied that blank pages exist in the 2025 national budget.Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin also defended Marcos’ handling of the 2025 national budget, saying he had “thoroughly purged” it of unnecessary expenditures.
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