Finance chief on way out? Fake news, says President

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Reports that Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno would be replaced by Albay Rep. Joey Salceda are “fake news,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday. READ:

“I don’t know where it comes from. Why will I do that? We have assembled a great team,” Mr. Marcos told reporters.

Diokno, who also served as Socioeconomic Secretary in the previous Duterte administration, has said he maintains good relations with the President, adding he is “old enough in this game to even bother” about such rumors. “Do not covet thy neighbor’s job. In past administrations, as in the present, I was able to move fiscal policy from my seat in Congress,” the lawmaker said in a statement.

 

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