Second impeachment complaint filed vs Aquino

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Second impeachment complaint filed vs Aquino

A day after an impeachment complaint against President Benigno Aquino III was filed, youth organizations filed a second impeachment complaint on Tuesday, July 22. The organizations, led by the Youth Act Now group, accused President Aquino of committing impeachable acts by approving the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). The complaint, filed at the House of Representatives, was endorsed by Kabataan party list representative Terry Ridon. The government maintains the DAP was intended as a tool to boost the economy by realigning funds from slow-disbursing government agencies to quick-disbursing projects.The Supreme Court, however, declared parts of the DAP as unconstitutional. Critics of president Aquino point out that the government did not originally reveal where the DAP was intended to go.

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