Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone welcomes has welcomed the move of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to study and review an executive order issued by his predecessor on devolution. | Joey Gabieta/PDI
which provides full devolution of certain functions of the national government to local governments.
Mayor Remedios Petilla of Palo, Leyte, said they have been asking the national government to suspend the devolution considering that local governments have been hounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.Petilla, who is the president of the mayors’ league in the province, said that insisting on the implementation of the devolution would surely hamper the operations of the local governments.
“They just want to do this devolution without giving us more funds which is very unfair for us LGUs. That is why, we have been lobbying for its suspension until we can recover due to the pandemic,” she said.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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