Pres. Marcos Jr. signed new law, Government Optimization Act 

-Gillian Paul Abayon

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. On monday, August 4, signed the Republic Act No. 12231, also known as the Government Optimization Act.

The new law uthorizes the President to reorganize and streamline agencies within the executive branch to ensure efficient delivery of public services.

In accordance to the newly signed law, the government is therefore mandated to provide “adequate resources to support an organization’s essential role, scope, and level of governance, and minimize, if not eliminate, redundancies, overlaps, and duplications in its operations and simplify its rules and regulations, systems, and processes, while protecting the welfare of civil servants and other government workers.”

The Goverment Optimization Act serves as a measure of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council, and it also allows the President to discontinue functions, programs, projects, or activities that can be more effectively carried out by the private sector or have already been delegated to local government units or LGUs.