Senator Imee Marcos faces criticism for attacking social amelioration programs like AKAP while simultaneously benefiting from them. Her colleagues in the Senate are also being scrutinized for their support of these programs, which have been used to distribute funds to voters.
'None of her obstructionist moves have endeared Senator Imee Marcos to both the supporters of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte', a charge that is sure to alienate her from her fellow senators seeking reelection who have been tapping social amelioration funds to, uhmm, show their genuine concern for the poor who, by some demographic quirk, happen to be voters.
The AKAP program’s beneficiaries are low income earners, including minimum wage workers. The social welfare secretary has given the assurance that barangay officials, local officials, and members of Congress — who decide how much a national government agency like the Department of Social Welfare and Development will receive every year — may only recommend applicants, but the final decision is made by the DSWD.
That hasn’t stopped the senator from assailing the program, and her colleagues for agreeing to AKAP during the bicameral conference committee without offering token resistance. And it seems that Senator Marcos has an issue not only with AKAP but with other programs intended to help the poor, even if she has been tapping them since becoming senator.
According to news reports, the senator diverted in 2023 some P13 billion from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the DSWD to another social amelioration program, the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations program.According to House Assistant Majority Leader Jil Bongalon of the Ako Bicol party-list group, the fund diversion allowed the senator and a few political personalities close to her to distribute financial assistance to their chosen beneficiaries through AICS.
It’s not because the presidential sister isn’t working hard to get the voters’ attention. Senator Marcos is everywhere. Her face is on tarpaulin streamers dotting national highways and on big-ass billboards. You see her in television ads, on social media platforms, in the news. For a senator who is the elder sister of an incumbent president, Senator Marcos has been acting in an unsisterly manner. That could be her undoing.
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