JUST IN. Gilberto Teodoro, a losing 2022 senatorial candidate and one-time defense chief, has been chosen to helm the defense sector once again, this time under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
MANILA, Philippines – Gilberto Teodoro, a losing 2022 senatorial candidate and one-time defense chief, has been chosen to helm the defense sector once again, this time under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The Department of National Defense , which has oversight of the Armed Forces of the Philippines , had been headed by mere OICs under Marcos. Before Galvez, who was also Marcos’ peace adviser, former AFP chief undersecretary Jose Faustino Jr. He gunned for Malacanang in 2010 but lost the presidency — by a long shot — to his cousin, the late president Benigno Aquino III.
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