• Office of Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
• 0916-6406737/0918-9120137
• Official Website: http://www.edcellagman.com.ph
• 05 May 2011

          The Aquino administrations’ high profile campaign on “good governance and less corruption” was unmasked as lacking in substance and performance by Global Integrity, a worldwide monitoring and rating outfit based in Washington D.C.

           The latest report of Global Integrity gave the Philippines a “very weak” overall rating of 57, which is down from the “moderate” score of 71 in 2008.

           The downgraded ranking validates the previous finding of the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Ltd. (PERC) that the Philippines’ corruption rating worsened to 8.9 from 8.25 in a scale of one to 10 in a survey covering the period from November 2010 to February 2011.

           The “good news website” proposed by Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda to reverse President Aquino’s dwindling performance ratings will either be an empty page for dearth of heart-warming stories or a perjured page of conjured “good news”.