Duterte reaffirms trust in Gina Lopez

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/06/20/ginalopez-rrd-rtvm.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc"><em>Photo courtesy of RTVM</em></div></figcaption></figure></div><h2>Says she&#x27;s strict, can&#x27;t be corrupted</h2><p>MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday reaffirmed his trust in Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez.</p><p>“I reappointed her. Na bypass siya eh. But I like her. She is okay, very strict, I like that. She is not corrupt, I like that. And she cannot be corrupted,” Duterte said of Lopez during a speech in Malacañang. </p><p>Speculations that Lopez had been sacked surfaced after she was not included in the list of Cabinet members who got reappointed. </p><p>This was doused when Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea confirmed last Friday after Duterte&#x27;s arrival from the APEC Summit that Lopez had been reappointed.</p><p>Several Cabinet members had to be <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/21/16/duterte-reappoints-cabinet-men-bypassed-by-the-ca">reappointed</a> after they were bypassed by the powerful Commission on Appointments.</p><p>Lopez earlier told ANC that she was not intentionally excluded from the initial list of reappointed Cabinet members, saying the President’s staff admitted to a “problem of logistics.”</p><p>“I do want to clean up the DENR [Department of Environment and Natural Resources]. Our budget was just approved, P28 billion. If we don’t have the right people and the right systems, that money is not going to make a difference,” she said.</p><p>Lopez led an unprecedented <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/09/27/16/20-mines-fail-denr-audit-face-suspension-lopez">crackdown</a> on unsafe mines, and cited 20 companies for possible suspension.</p><p>“The key here is having the right people, especially in the field and that’s what I’m doing now. I have zero tolerance for corruption,” she said.</p><p>“We have to rock the boat that’s what happens when you bring on change, you rock the boat,” she said.</p>

<p>MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday reaffirmed his trust in Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez.</p>

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday reaffirmed his trust in Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez.

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Duterte reaffirms trust in Gina Lopez

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Published Nov 28, 2016 07:23 PM PHT

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