Kapalit ni Pernia kailangan sa pagpapalakas ng ekonomiya

Pernia

HINDI umano maaaring matagal na bakante ang posisyon na iniwan ni National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director General Ernesto Pernia.

Ayon kay House committee on ways and means chairman at Albay Rep. Joey Salceda ang bansa ay nasa “critical period” at kailangan ang NEDA chief para agad na makabangon ang ekonomiya ng bansa.

“We need a complete economic team in these difficult times,” ani Salceda. “An appointment with a record for economic crisis management would be an opportunity to send a signal to the public and to the markets that government’s economic response will be robust and strategic.”

Kailangan umano ng Kamara de Representantes sa mga gagawin nitong batas ang NEDA chief.

Suportado naman ni Salceda ang pagiging acting secretary ng NEDA ni Dr. Karl Kendrick Chua.

“Karl has been my partner in the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP). In the 2003 fiscal crisis, Karl was also among the thinkers who helped guide me in designing the reforms that enabled us to be fiscally and economically resilient this past decade,” dagdag pa ng solon.

“The appointment is a signal to the public and to the markets that government’s economic response will be robust and strategic.”