Kabataan party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel — File picture from Home of Representatives
MANILA, Philippines — Outgoing Kabataan party-list lawmaker Raoul Manuel on Monday maintained his group’s callout of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was premised on a number of of the youth group’s previous proposed measures for oil worth management having been ignored by Malacañang.
In an announcement, Manuel asserted that he and his group have lengthy been making proposals on decrease oil costs, opposite to Palace Press Officer Claire Castro’s declare that the celebration record was simply criticizing Marcos with out even suggesting options.
In response to the outgoing lawmaker, “Early into our time period as party-list consultant, we filed payments to unbundle oil costs and to take away value-Added tax and the TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Regulation) excise tax from oil merchandise.”
Manuel mentioned that on June 30, 2022, his first day within the nineteenth Congress, he and different Makabayan bloc representatives filed Home Invoice No. 400, which sought to decrease the costs of oil and petroleum merchandise by eradicating taxes imposed on it by means of amendments of Republic Act 10936 or the TRAIN Regulation.
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In August of the identical 12 months, Manuel and different Makabayan lawmakers filed Home Invoice no. 3004, or the Unbundling of Oil Costs Invoice.
He identified that each HBs 400 and 3004 have been stalled on the committee stage.
“The issue is, they have been by no means included within the Marcos administration’s priorities. Midway into its time period, there’s nonetheless no clear plan to scale back the price of items and lift staff’ wages,” Manuel claimed in Filipino.
He lamented that it appeared the administration was solely able to giving social welfare help and claimed that Marcos had no political will to alter the system biased in the direction of the wealthy.
“We’re red-tagged and known as terrorists if we push for various options,” Manuel mentioned, emphasizing, “The youth stage rallies as a result of we put forth options however are unheeded.”
The lawmaker suggested the Palace to “act on proposed reforms as an alternative of dismissing criticism.” /das
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