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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte was once again brought to the camera for using the confidential funds of her employment.
00:08Four officials of the Office of the Vice President were contempted and arrested by the committee for not attending the hearings.
00:15The Chief of Staff, OVP, was once again suspended.
00:19The Vice President signed an investigation on her or an invitation to her in the camera this evening
00:26while her former President, Rodrigo Duterte, was involved in the Qualcomm hearing.
00:31On Wednesday, November 20, the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability was established.
00:38And before that, Vice President Duterte faced the Senate where she was approved for her employment for the year 2025.
00:47Witness, Marisol Obdurama.
00:50733 million pesos for the year 2025.
00:53That's what the Senate approved earlier for the budget of the Office of the Vice President.
00:57This is also the first time the camera has been approved after more than half of the people are asking for more than 2 billion pesos.
01:05Once it reaches the final version of the budget,
01:08this will be the lowest amount received by the OVP since Vice President Sara Duterte took office.
01:14This is the lowest amount received by the OVP since Vice President Sara Duterte took office.
01:19In her visit to the previous hearings on the OVP budget, VP Sara met with some Senators and Congressmen.
01:26This August, she advised the Senate to ask other government agencies for funds for her programs such as medical, financial, and education assistance.
01:38She was also asked about the children's book that was written by the Vice President and will cost 10 million pesos to distribute to children and students.
01:46The Vice President's answer was that the budget is a policy.
01:49As for the camera, the Vice President answered the questions of the Congressmen about the use of 73 million pesos of confidential funds for the 2022 OVP.
02:00She did not attend the next budget hearings on the camera.
02:03However, the House Committee on Government and Public Accountability insisted that there was no misuse of funds in her job.
02:11The camera's leader said in September that they transferred more than 1.2 billion pesos from the OVP budget to other agencies.
02:21During the discussion of the plenary earlier in the Senate, VP Sara visited.
02:25Senator Bong Go manifested there, a well-known ally of the Dutertes, to return the OVP budget.
02:32Some of the important programs of the OVP will be affected because some of them were removed from the budget of the OVP under the General Appropriations Bill.
02:43This will be discussed during the period of amendments.
02:46Although Vice President Sara Duterte was asked to return her budget to the Congress, she hopes to return her proposed budget of 2 billion pesos in 2025.
02:56Of course, all the personnel of the Office of the Vice President are hopeful that the budget will be added because, as explained earlier in Senator Bong Go's statement, everyone wants to work.
03:12If she can return it, it will be a big thing because we will not deny those who will come to our office to ask for help.
03:25If the budget cannot be returned, they say that 200 personnel are expected to lose their jobs.
03:31Particularly in satellite offices that will lose their jobs, there are also many of them.
03:37Most of the satellite offices are also here because the operations of the National Capital Region are also large.
03:44Vice President Duterte was also asked during a Quadcom hearing with her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
03:50I do not expect fairness. It's clearly a political persecution.
03:55I've seen it many times. Even if the budget of the OVP is approved by the NEC, when we came to the House of Representatives, we were asked again and again.
04:06They use the rules according to their pleasure.
04:09Even if it's unconstitutional, the rules are still being used.
04:16The question is, will she worry about her father?
04:19I don't think he will go there if he thinks he can't do it or if he is weak health-wise.
04:29So, he'll be okay.
04:32For GMA Integrated Youths, Marisol Abdurrahman is your witness.
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