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Duterte appoints Gloria lawyer to Cabinet post


President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed the lawyer of former President and incumbent Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to his Cabinet.

Lawyer Raul Lambino was named administrator and chief executive officer of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, a post that comes with Cabinet rank, on July 5.

 

 

Lambino had previously served as Arroyo’s spokesperson when she was still detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.

Retired Major General Eduardo del Rosario meanwhile was appointed chairperson of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council on July 12. He replaced Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., who held the post when Vice President Leni Robredo resigned from the job in December.

He had been serving as an undersecretary for civil, veterans and retiree affairs of the Department of National Defense. He also served as an executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council during the time of former President Benigno Aquino III.

Lambino and Del Rosario were part of a new set of presidential appointees for July.

Others include new Supreme Court Associate Justice Andres Reyes and Moro Islamic Liberation Front vice chairperson Ghazali Jaafar as the Amirul Hajj for the 2017 Hajj Mission to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Duterte also appointed a new director for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources–Environmental Management Bureau, Metodio Turbella.

Walter Besas will serve as a deputy executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board while Eric Distor will be a director of the National Bureau of Investigation. —JST/KVD, GMA News

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