Ex-MIAA general manager Alfonso Cusi to serve as DOE chief
May 20, 2016 | 6:44pm
DAVAO CITY – Presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte has chosen a former airport official identified with the Arroyo administration as his Energy secretary.
Duterte’s spokesman Salvador Panelo said former Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) general manager Alfonso Cusi has been named Energy secretary of the incoming administration.
Panelo said Duterte has also picked former Justice Undersecretary Jose Calida as Solicitor General, the official that represents the government in courts.
“They (Cusi and Calida) were chosen because they passed the criteria set by the president which is integrity and competence. They know the problems they’ll handle and they are capable of addressing those problems,” Panelo said in a phone interview Friday.
Cusi is the vice chairman of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan, the political party of Duterte.
He has been tagged in the alleged poll cheating in the 2004 polls, which saw then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo secure a fresh six-year term.
A former Shariah Circuit Judge claimed in 2011 that Cusi had instructed him to distribute millions of pesos supposedly to ensure that Arroyo would win in Mindanao. Cusi, a close friend of Arroyo’s husband Jose Miguel, has denied the allegation.
Cusi was also chief of the Philippine Ports Authority and Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines during the Arroyo administration.
Calida, meanwhile, served as executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board and justice undersecretary also during the Arroyo presidency.
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