PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s possible move to wind down the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) need not weaken the government’s anti-corruption drive if its work is absorbed by permanent oversight institutions, political analysts said, as the body awaits its fate after submitting its 125-day report to Malacañang on Feb. 6.
Special commissions such as the ICI are designed to be temporary responses to urgent governance failures, Ederson DT. Tapia, a political science professor at the University of Makati, said in a Facebook Messenger chat. Their role, he added, is to gather evidence, expose systemic weaknesses and recommend reforms that should outlast the commission itself.
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