ICYMI: Giving more benefits to former presidents, such as augmenting their security detail, will not affect state coffers, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa said as he defended a proposal that he and three other allies of former President Rodrigo Duterte had filed.
Dela Rosa headed the Philippine National Police from 2016 to 2018, implementing the bloody drug war at the outset of Duterte’s presidency.“Go noticed the pitiful [situation of] the ex-presidents,” he said. “While they are already retired as presidents, many are still requesting… their appearances in [social] affairs. But they have no staff to write their speech or even prepare their schedule.”
According to Go, former presidents still meet with foreign dignitaries and local leaders, and this requires them to “employ the services of personal staff and maintain private offices.” Besides Duterte, other living former presidents are Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Joseph Estrada, the predecessor whom she ousted amid the events of People Power II in 2001.
Republic Act No. 5059, which took effect in 1967 without the approval of then President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., mandates that former presidents enjoy a few privileges after the end of their terms, such as a tax-free annual pension of P40,000 and free postage for all their correspondence.
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