I vote “yes” to House Bill No. 4488 for the following reasons:
(Delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman during the BUILD Asia Pacific Learning Session on Understanding the Demographic Dividend and the PED Nexus on 27 September 2022)
Allow me to begin by thanking our speakers and the organizers of PATH Foundation for a successful and enlightening session. Thank you, too, to the invited guests for your active participation in today’s session. Your valuable inputs are indispensable if we are to better understand the compelling nexus between population and sustainable human development.
(Privilege speech delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman on September 21, 2022)
Mr. Speaker and distinguished colleagues.
Fifty years constitute a golden jubilee, a celebration of life for half a century.
I cast a negative vote on the postponement of the barangay and SK elections scheduled on December 5, 2022 and their resetting to the first Monday of December 2023 for the following overiding grounds:
- Speeches
(Speech delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman at the Center for Liberalism and Democracy’s Martial Law Forum at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani on 17 September 2022)
On the 50th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., it is vital that we understand why we commemorate the darkest years in Philippine history.
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