(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has made new appointments in several government agencies.
Former Social Security System Commissioner Jose Gabriel La Viña, who was Duterte’s social media strategist in the 2016 elections, was appointed undersecretary of the Department of Tourism on April 24.
La Viña’s stint as SSS chair was not extended by President Duterte in February after he allegedly requested for budgets for an advertising program and a social media project with him as TV host, among others.
Rosario Sagadal and Agnes Alexis Lucero-De Grano were appointed commissioners of the National Labor Relations Commission, while former Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority board member Benny Antipoda was appointed undersecretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.