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THE Commission on Appointments (CA) on Wednesday approved the ad interim appointment of former Cavite Governor Juanito Victor \u201cJonvic\u201d Remulla as secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n No member of the CA voted against the designation of Remulla as DILG chief.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CA Majority Floor Leader Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. moved to recommend the confirmation of Remulla, formally joining his brother, Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla, in the Cabinet of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Remulla, he is planning to streamline the police organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe have 153 generals, and a lot of them are redundant. And I think we’ve had consultations, we’ve been talking to them, and I think we can streamline this down to maybe less than 100 as of current,\u201d Remulla said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Remulla also said he intends to address some questions on the computation of the internal revenue allotment (IRA).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI think everyone here who has served in local government sees a great question mark every time an IRA is passed down to a province,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On October 8, the Palace announced Remulla\u2019s appointment as the new head of the DILG., replacing B<\/strong>enjamin \u201cBenhur\u201d Abalos who will run for senator in the 2025 mid-term polls.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Commission on Appointments (CA) on Wednesday approved the ad interim appointment of former Cavite Governor Juanito Victor “Jonvic” Remulla as secretary of the Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10145,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions\/10145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}