00:00President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. picks his former Interior Secretary Ben-Hur Abalos as Cabinet Secretary.
00:06The announcement comes months after the one-year appointment ban on defeated 2025 candidates lapsed.
00:12Dallas Press Officer Undersecretary Claire Castro says Wednesday, July 8,
00:16Abalos' role is to assist Marcos by
00:18"...providing timely, relevant, and strategic advice on emerging national, local, and international issues affecting the political landscape."
00:25Abalos is the first Secretary of the Marcos Cabinet.
00:28The position was last held by Melvin Matibag under the Rodrigo Duterte administration and who now heads the National Bureau
00:35of Investigation.
00:36Abalos was Duterte's Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairperson until he left his post in 2022 to serve as Marcos' campaign
00:43manager.
00:44He was also Marcos' campaign manager for Metro Manila during the latter's failed vice presidential bid in 2016.
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