budget realignment

• Insufficient budget for national ID system

  23 April 2020

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  Justice Carpio explains that the Philippine National ID’s slow implementation was due to insufficient budget allocations for PhilSys—not legal opposition—and outlines how funding shortfalls in the General Appropriations Act hindered nationwide rollout despite the law and IRR already in place.

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• Taking full responsibility to solve crisis

  26 March 2020

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  Justice Carpio explains that President Duterte’s early mismanagement of COVID‑19 and later acquisition of emergency powers mean the responsibility to solve the pandemic now rests squarely on his shoulders, and that constitutional authority already existed for many of the measures taken.

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