The missing vote of Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III on the Maharlika Investment Fund bill raised questions as he had been a vocal dissenter of the proposal over the past few months. READ:
He asked what emergency called for the votation that could’ve been done on “more normal hours.”
The Senate majority, according to Pimentel, was trying to put up safeguards in the MIF bill throughout the process of amending it. The Senate’s overwhelming decision, in effect, boosted the proposed MIF in its journey toward becoming a law.Pimentel lamented the “difficulty and reality” of working in collegial bodies like the Senate.
“If they want to challenge this Maharlika in courts, I can provide them with some hopefully useful information and facts,” he said.
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