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‘Retrieve stolen govt funds for workers’

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Labor leader and presidential aspirant Ka Leody de Guzman said funds “stolen” by previous administrations “should be retrieved and be used to help support the workers.”

De Guzman, in a GMA News report, brought up the proposal when asked during the PiliPinas Forum of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Kapisanan ng Brodkaster ng Pilipinas on how he could lift the Philippines out of its current challenges and crises.

“We must take back the stolen wealth by past administrations — not only of Ferdinand Marcos but all of them — and use it to help the workers who lost their jobs and to support our health workers,” De Guzman, in the report, said.

Earlier, De Guzman slammed the Marcos family for their more than P203 billion estate tax debt, while also calling for the government to tax the billionaires and “recover the wealth of the corrupt politicians.”

The labor leader also suggested that taking the funds directly from the rich or those who have the capacity to pay would be among the solutions to the plight of small businesses.

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De Guzman also reiterated his call “to increase the national minimum wage to P750, to abolish the regional wage boards, and to dissolve manpower agencies to end contractualization in the country.”

De Guzman’s running mate, Professor Walden Bello meanwhile said to improve the country’s education system, they will allocate over P1 trillion in the education sector for the next fiscal year if they win in the May 9 polls.

In this budget, P300 billion will be devoted to improving the quality of education at all levels, Bello, in the GMA report said.

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