The Senate probe into the people’s initiative discovers the push for charter change can be traced back to the budget deliberations in 2023.
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00:00 The Senate probe into the People's Initiative discovers the push for charter change can
00:05 be traced back to the budget deliberations in 2023.
00:10 Senators are dumbfounded after they found during a hearing on February 13, some P26.7
00:15 billion "magically appeared" in the approved 2024 budget of the Department of Social Welfare
00:21 and Development.
00:23 The funds in question are supposedly for financial aid of the agency called Ayuda sa Kaposangkita
00:28 or AKAP.
00:30 Senator Aimee Marcos, who also sponsored the 2024 DSWD budget, says she was unaware of
00:36 the project.
00:37 She alleges the AKAP funds were used to lure people to sign in favor of amending the Constitution
00:42 through a People's Initiative.
00:44 Senior House Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzalez Jr. counters February 14, the Senate gave
00:50 its stamp of approval to AKAP when it passed the then-proposed 2024 national budget in
00:55 November 2023.
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