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The Public Attorney’s Office is chronically undermanned, overworked, and underpaid––and they need all the help they can get. One possible solution, said Rizal Second District Rep. Fidel Nograles, is to mandate the creation of free legal aid programs in law schools around the country “to provide underprivileged Filipinos with legal services they need, but cannot […]
The provincial government and the 14 mayors of Rizal are throwing their support behind House Bill No. 336, a measure filed by Rizal Second District Rep. Fidel Nograles that would split Rizal’s second legislative district into three separate districts, giving Rizal two more legislators on top of the current four. Rizal Gov. Rebecca “Nini” Ynares […]
Among the top 10 provinces in the Philippines, Rizal has the fewest number of representatives in the House of Representatives, with only four legislators representing close to 2.9 million Rizaleños. This, argues Rizal Second District Rep. Fidel Nograles, is the rationale behind his proposal to split Rizal’s second legislative district into three separate districts, “to […]
Bring back Montalban. This, according to Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles, is the prevailing sentiment of residents of Rodriguez, Rizal who want to restore the original name of the first class municipality still popularly known in the country as Montalban. The first-term legislator revealed on Wednesday that during his tenure as Assistant Provincial Administrator […]