Malacañang urges government agencies to keep their Christmas parties simple, and to donate the money saved to storm-ravaged communities.
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00:00Malacanang urges government agencies to keep their Christmas parties simple and to donate
00:05the money saved to storm ravaged communities.
00:08In a statement, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin says President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
00:13calls on government agencies to avoid lavish celebrations.
00:17Bersamin says this is in solidarity with the millions of Filipinos still grieving losses
00:21from recent typhoons.
00:23Six tropical cyclones battered parts of the country over the last four weeks.
00:27Christine, Leon, Marseille, Nica, Ofel, and most recently, Super Typhoon Pepito.
00:34The government recorded at least 150 dead due to Christine and Leon.
00:39More than a million people were affected due to the combined effects of tropical cyclones
00:43Nica, Ofel, and Pepito.
00:45Bersamin adds the palace won't issue official guidance on how the bureaucracy should cut
00:49back on holiday spending.
00:51He says the palace trusts that government workers can, quote, unilaterally adopt austerity
00:56in their celebrations.