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The Secretary countered that although PDAF traced its roots to CDF, it
should not be equated with “pork barrel,” which has gained a derogatory meaning
referring “to government projects affording political opportunism.” Aside from
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that, the Secretary argued that the petition lacked legal and factual basis as most of
the evidence was culled from media reports. The Secretary also invoked Philconsa
v. Enriquez, where CDF was described as an imaginative and innovative process
or mechanism of implementing priority programs/projects specified in the law.
ISSUE:
HELD:
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