DAVAO CITY – Congress will estimate next year’s proposed national budget in place of the revival of the demise penalty, according to prospective speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.
He stated budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has asked that Congress pass the national price range for 2017 through the end of November.
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The Department of Budget and Management has reportedly requested for at the least three weeks following President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address on July 25, earlier than the price range may be submitted to Congress as it has yet to check the P3.35-trillion transition price range for subsequent yr that the Aquino administration had drafted.
Alvarez stated the proposed furnish of emergency powers to Duterte to resolve the site visitors hassle will be mentioned simultaneously with the finances.
“It is because after November, comes December and that is our Christmas break, so the proposed revival of the death penalty will be discussed by January next year,” he said. “I am sure in the lower house we can navigate it by first quarter next year.”
Duterte has been determined to bring back the death penalty as retribution for those who have committed heinous crimes.
He stated that he wants death penalty restored as part of his conflict against crime and the continued extent of illegal drugs in the country.
Duterte has warned that unless illegal drugs are contained, the country will be ruled by narco-politics in the years to come.
“I consider in retribution. Why? You have to pay,” he stated. “while you kill a person, rape, you ought to die.”
“I consider in retribution. Why? You have to pay,” he stated. “while you kill a person, rape, you ought to die.”
However, Alvarez stated the passage of those payments might additionally should depend on the Senate.
“We still have to see how the Senate will navigate the said proposed bills,” he said.
Source: Philstar