WIRE — MANILA, Philippines Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Thursday branded the so-called leadership fund "a worse version of the outlawed pork barrel system" as it provided lawmakers opportunity to make insertions even during the preparation stage of the national budget. Further insertions in the budget, he said, could still happen once the National Expenditure Program (NEP)
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