Robles as quickly as served as spokesperson of the El Shaddai and was an official of the party-list group BUHAY
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s select to maneuver the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office has experience every in working the federal authorities’s gentle rail transit and serving as liaison between a religious group and most of the people.
Mel Robles, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles launched on Thursday, July 14, had been nominated by the President to be primary supervisor of the corporate, which helps improve funds for the federal authorities’s properly being packages and medical suppliers, amongst others.
“[Robles] is credited with having been the one administrator to have made that firm worthwhile,” well-known Angeles.
Robles was moreover beforehand a member of the board of the Intercontinental Broadcast Firm, a media group beneath the now-defunct Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). Beneath his administration, Marcos abolished the PCOO and positioned the IBC beneath the Office of the Press Secretary, which is headed by Angeles.
Robles will also be a businessman and owns a rehabilitation facility.
Robles was appointed chief of the Mild Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) beneath the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who’s a member of the ruling political coalition which supported Marcos.
Robles’ stint as LRTA was not exactly smooth-sailing. In 2017, he was ordered arrested by the anti-graft courtroom docket Sandiganbayan over alleged anomalies throughout the implementation of a 2009 janitorial contract.
Robles and his co-accused had been acquitted and the preserve departure orders in direction of them lifted consistent with a Sandiganbayan selection promulgated in November 2019.
Sooner than he joined the federal authorities, Robles was spokesperson for Mike Velarde, the top of the Catholic charismatic movement El Shaddai. He was moreover an official of the party-list Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (BUHAY), alongside its guide throughout the 18th Congress, Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza.
The Velardes currently reduce ties with BUHAY, over disagreements on who the social gathering would topic throughout the 2022 polls. A Manila Bulletin report well-known that Robles was a “staunch [supporter]…of former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.” Atienza, within the meantime, was the working mate of former senator and dropping presidential aspirant Manny Pacquiao.
Robles modified Anselmo Simeon P. Pinili, the current chairperson and advert interim primary supervisor of PCSO. – MR
