NOY FUNDS DIFFERENT FROM PDAF: Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda moved to distinguish between the President’s Social Fund (PSF) and the pork barrel fund of lawmakers, implying that only politicians use their allocations for purposes of re-election. “Let me be clear, pork barrel is in the context of using it as a means of re-election,” Lacierda said, referring to senators and congressmen who are entitled to yearly lump sum allocations called Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF), the official name of the congressional pork barrel. He insisted on the distinction as he clarified the difference between PDAF and the PSF that has been widely known as Aquino’s pork barrel funds, over whose disbursement he has sole discretion. “The President has no pork barrel because he is not up for re-election,” he stressed. Lacierda said under the Constitution, the President is only good for one term and, therefore, any allusion to the PSF as pork barrel is incorrect, inaccurate, and is grossly, factually wrong. Apart from this, he disclosed that such PSF funds undergo scrutiny from the Commission on Audit (COA), noting that there have been no reports of misuse of the funds by the Chief Executive for the last three years.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:31:28 +0000
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