PRESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. said he will be considering candidates, who lost in the May 2022 polls, for Cabinet posts by next year.
“I don’t think that’s any—that’s a secret to anyone that at the end of the first year, the candidates, they will now join the mix of possible nominees,” Marcos told reporters in an interview in Quezon City last Thursday.
Under the 1987 Constitution, “no candidate who has lost in any election, shall within one year after election, be appointed to any office in the government or any government-owned or -controlled corporation or in any of its subsidiaries.”
Marcos made the remark when asked if he is considering any changes in his Cabinet members, which still have several officers-in-charge (OIC).
“I think I am happy with the situation as it is now. We’ll see. We always said these things are revisited especially every year at the end of the first year,” Marcos said.
The President said he is also currently satisfied with the performances of Department of Health (DOH) OIC Maria Rosario Vergeire and Department of National Defense OIC Jose Faustino.
“My only concern is for the tasks at hand, are completed. So far, [these jobs] are being done,” Marcos said.