President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is eyeing to pick additional Cabinet members among personalities who lost in the 2022 polls following the end of a constitutional ban this month.
“Marami namang magaling na hindi nanalo sa eleksyon na gusting tumulong. So we will certainly look into that in different positions,” the President said in an interview with the media onboard Flight PR 001 on Sunday.
“More or less, for the beginning of… the second year of my term, palagay ko mayroong mga ano. Not a shuffle but we will add people to Cabinet, to strengthen the Cabinet,” he added.
The President, however, is yet to bare the names of the new appointees as he wants to talk with his prospects first.
“I will not announce anybody. They should not hear it naman from the press. They should hear it from me. Kami muna mag-usap,” President Marcos said.
Based on Article IX-B, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution, no candidate who has lost in any election shall, within one year after such election, “be appointed to any office in the government or any government-owned or controlled corporations or in any of their subsidiaries.”
The presidential elections was held on May 9 last year.