By Junex Doronio
ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS, so the adage goes, and with House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto joining President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s visit to the United States this week, rumors swirled that this Batangueño lawmaker will be tapped as top honcho of the Department of Finance.
On the other hand, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno will likely fill up the one slot left unfilled in the Monetary Board, the highest policymaking body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
It was the first time that Recto, who ironically campaigned for Isko Moreno in the last presidential elections, accompanied PBBM in his latest foreign travel.
Political pundits told Maharlika NuMedia that Marcos Jr. seems to imitate his late father who would always gather “the best and the brightest” in the Cabinet.
The husband of Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos deserves to be the finance chief, the same analysts said.
They cited Recto, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce major in Business Management from De La Salle University, also earned his master’s degree units in public administration from the University of the Philippines.
He took up a leadership course at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is also a candidate for a Master’s degree in strategic business economics at the University of Asia and the Pacific.
(AI/MNM)
