Congress should also take a second look at the budget of the Supreme Court used in maintaining the costly and
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra wants an additional P10-million added to his office’s annual budget for 2024.
China’s purported basis for its illegal seizure and occupation of Philippine territory in the disputed area is a self-serving nine-dash-line delineation system which China made available to the world only after the United States closed its military and naval bases in the Philippines in 1992. Manila’s resort to diplomacy with Beijing has been responded to by the communists with empty rhetoric and breached agreements.
Undoubtedly, the lawyers in the OSG are among the highest paid legal minds working in the government bureaucracy today. In short, even without the additional P10-million Guevarra wants, the OSG is well equipped and funded enough to prepare a thorough study on the legal options of the Philippine government in light of the arbitral ruling in Manila’s favor.
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