Marcos to Focus on Economic Team After Claiming Poll Victory
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Philippine presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said he is looking to build up cabinet that will steer the economy by boosting jobs, managing food and fuel prices and pushing more infrastructure projects.
“The economic managers will be critical for the next several years because of the pandemic and the economic crisis. So that’s something that we are looking at very carefully,” Marcos Jr. said in his first appearance before the media after winning the election.