The palace on Monday confirmed Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. had attended the Formula One (F1) Grand Prix at the weekend, calling it a productive trip. READ:
His trip to Singapore “was productive,” Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a Facebook post. “He affirmed major talks in his last state visit to this state and continued to urge investments into the Philippines,” she said in Filipino.
“If the president used government resources for an obviously personal, extravagant and frivolous trip in time of economic hardship then it is like a punch in the gut of hungry Filipinos,” Party-list Rep. France L. Castro said in a separate statement. State affairs were not discussed at the event and the public did not benefit from the overseas trip, Terry L. Ridon, a public investment analyst and convenor of InfraWatch PH, said in a Messenger chat.
It doesn’t matter if he used his own money for the trip, said Hansley A. Juliano, a political economy researcher studying at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of International Development in Japan. “No matter how Malacañang spins the trip, it was clearly an indulgent family weekend by the president with his wife, son, and cousin in tow,” Sonny A. Africa, executive director of think tank IBON Foundation, said in a Messenger chat.
“Going on an unannounced and unscheduled trip overseas is just disrespectful to the job and to the people who depend on him doing his job,” he added.
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