Section 88 Government Auditing Code

• No vaccine, no VFA

  31 December 2020

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  Justice Carpio criticizes the President’s “no vaccine, no VFA” ultimatum linking U.S. vaccine delivery to the Visiting Forces Agreement, explaining how advance payment mechanisms and misreading of procurement law undermine access to Western COVID-19 vaccines and risk geopolitical leverage.

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