Mass protest expected in Philippines capital amid public fury over alleged corruption in government projects | Philippines
Thousands of people are expected to participate in a mass protest in Manila on the basis of anger against corruption perceived in flood control projects financed by the state on Sunday on Sunday.
The show called “Trillion Peso Walking” is named. Environmental Organization claim It is the amount caused by climate -related projects in 2023.
The September 21 show is the symbolic historical importance that Ferdinand Marcos, then with the anniversary of the same day in 1972, was implemented by martial law.
Ultimately, it was a great man of manpower that overthrew Marcos’s reign of decades of Marcos, who had to flee from the country in 1989 due to allegations of dissatisfaction and widespread corruption in the public opinion.
The current president, Ferdinand, the son of the former leader, tried to calm the angry Philippines, saying he supported the protests.
“Do you blame them for going to the streets?” This week he told reporters at a press conference. “If I wasn’t the president, I would be on the streets with them.
“Of course they get angry. Angry, I’m angry. We must all be angry, because what happened is not true.”
Civil Society and Church organizations are among the groups calling for joint demonstrations with anger with anger with the government’s corruption and privilege in the region.
A protest movement led by Gen Z overthrew the Nepal government this month, and a series of demonstrations that were triggered by the privileges given to the deputies in Indonesia, which the government was forced to withdraw.
This week, the angry young people in Eastern Timor also went to the streets to demand the cancellation of the plan to give free SUVs to MPs. In the face of unrest, the government plan was scrapped.
In the Philippines, after the center of Marcos’s July Status, the central stage, the public rage focuses on ghost infrastructure projects.
Martin Romualdez, the speaker of President Marcos’s cousin and the House of Philippine Representatives, gave his resignation on Wednesday.
Romualdez, “Some infrastructure projects surrounding the issues that are not only on me, but also on this institution has raised the questions that we all serve,” he said.
“The longer I stay, the load is growing heavier.”
In general, in a speech, Romualdez said that he changed his resignation with “complete heart and a clear conscience”.
“I am doing this for the independent infrastructure commission to freely and completely – to maintain it without intervening and without an unnecessary effect,” he said.
Last week, the owners of a construction company accused about 30 home members and officials of receiving cash payment in the Ministry of Public Works and Motorways.
On Monday, Marcos announced that Andres Reyes, the former Supreme Supreme Court justice, will chair a three -year commission to look at the last ten -year flood control projects.
