Ex-Rep. Zaldy Co accuses Pres. Marcos’ son of P50B worth of budget insertions

ARESIGNED lawmaker at the center of a brewing political scandal has accused President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr’s son of “inserting” about P50 billion into national budgets over the past three years, widening the circle of influential politicians implicated in the controversy gripping the Philippines

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Former Party-list Rep. Elizaldy S. Co alleged that House Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” A. Marcos III had asked to slip in billions of pesos to anomalous construction projects during the budget bill's finalization at the bicameral conference committee level.

He shared photos showing where the younger Marcos’ budget “insertions” appeared in annual national spending plan documents, detailing public works projects ranging from flood control and drainage to canals and roads nationwide.

“It’s not only the President who has insertions in the budget. Congressman Sandro Marcos also puts something in every year,” he said in a video message posted on his Facebook account.