PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is eyeing to pick additional Cabinet members among competent personalities who lost in the 2023 polls, following the end of the Constitutional ban this month.
“Marami namang magaling na hindi nanalo sa eleksyon na gustong tumulong. So we will certainly look into that in different positions,” the President said in an interview with the media onboard Flight PR 001 on Sunday.
“More or less, for the beginning of… the second year of my term, palagay ko mayroong mga ano. Not a shuffle but we will add people to Cabinet, to strengthen the Cabinet,” he added.
The President, however, is yet to bare the names of the new appointees as he wants to talk with his prospects first.
“They should not hear it naman from the press. They should hear it from me. Kami muna mag-usap,” Marcos said.
Based on Article IX-B, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution, no candidate who has lost in any election shall, within one year after such election, “be appointed to any office in the government or any government-owned or controlled corporations or in any of their subsidiaries.”
The presidential polls were held on May 9 last year.
