Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr. holds press conference on Saturday. (PHOTO BY WINLEY SANCHEZ DELA FUENTE)
The Durterte administration is opening a new office to “institutionalize” participatory governance in the country, according to Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr.
But details on the Office of Participative Governance (OPG) were still being finalized but this would be the first of its kind in the country, he added.
“Nothing is official yet, but we are working on it,” he said in a press conference at the Kilusang Pagbabago (KP) Cebu office in Cebu City.
Evasco said the OPG will be created through an executive order to be issued.
The KP, which serves as the OPG’s umbrella organization, is a nationwide initiative in response to President Duterte’s call for participatory governance by consolidating all his forces into an organized mass movement.
As a partner of government, the KP will serve as a watchdog against crimes, educator of Duterte’s platform of change, and defender of the republic during crisis.
At least 8,000 Duterte supporters from Cebu are expected to take oath as KP members at the Cebu Coliseum at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
KP was earlier launched in Bohol, Negros Island, and Siquijor, but Cebu supporters were the first to organize a province-wide movement