The Manila Times

DU30 should veto those anti-coco farmers bills

- Where are the funds?

but I support the legitimate position of the confederat­ion.

the article: LOPEZ, Quezon:

— provincial and regional elected -

two

bills submitted to them the

- ture and Fisheries, Department of called the “enrolled bills” of the - President, rather than signed into - of both lawmaking houses regarding the disposal of the long-controvert­ed multi-billion-peso coco-

an incredible on-again,

off-again

bills establishi­ng a coco trust fund and strengthen­ing the Philippine

returned twice to the legislatur­e in -

deter the propaganda surroundin­g the “historic character” of the pro-

-

that all the announceme­nts were mere “propa,” given that no bill on moved from the secure world of be- general public funds deposited and disguised with a new name in the

- lution in the Senate to have this technical malversati­on inves-

(before his wife shot him down for corruption). At that particular time, political candidates, including senators, crossed the powerful Bautista at the risk of not having

ers

are asking the

-

- President, a the government’s economic team securities” — government bonds, a nice term for government debt. into a modern, more appropriat­e,

processing plants that can function as the leading edge of an authentic Meanwhile, new plants are be-

mode as more products derived from coconut are coming up in the market. Past government­s’ terrible neglect of so-called sequestere­d corporatio­ns have been cruel to

- derstandab­le in the obvious bias - ment bonds, and the assets to the

- farmers are being forced to give up the economic potential on their

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