Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez resigns: Palace

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Atty. Vic Rodriguez, spokesperson of presumptive president Ferdinand " Marcos="" answers="" questions="" during="" a="" media="" forum="" at="" the="" BBM="" Headquarters="" in="" Mandaluyong="" City="" on="" May="" Jonathan="" ABS-CBN="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/07/22/20220517-marcos-spokesperson-vic-rodriguez-jc-16.jpg"/><figcaption>Atty. Vic Rodriguez, spokesperson of presumptive president Ferdinand &#x27;Bongbong&#x27; Marcos , answers questions during a media forum at the BBM Headquarters in Mandaluyong City on May 17, 2022. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div><h3>Marcos accepted Rodriguez resignation: Palace</h3><p>MANILA (<strong>3rd UPDATE</strong>)— President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.&#x27;s long-time lawyer and spokesperson Vic Rodriguez has resigned from his post as executive secretary, Malacañang confirmed on Saturday. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/30/22/profile-executive-secretary-vic-rodriguez">PROFILE: Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez</a></li></ul><p>&quot;We confirm reports that Atty. Vic Rodriguez has stepped down as Executive Secretary,&quot; Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said. </p><p>In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid028sd5FngvKApcm286mw7zxSS2EeFkmgPYPoPv3T2AJnVfkW6Mu2kZaX2GcCAR41P5l&amp;id=111730914780898">Facebook post</a>, Rodriguez said he will continue serving in the government as the Presidential Chief of Staff. He thanked Marcos for the opportunity to hold the &quot;little president&quot; post for nearly 3 months.</p><p>&quot;I have asked permission to step down as Executive Secretary,&quot; he said. </p><p>&quot;There is nothing more rewarding than answering the call to serve the country, a rare privilege not extended to all but was given to me by the President.</p><p>&quot;The work of an Executive Secretary is a 24/7 job with myriad topics expected to be attended to every day. It demands a sense of urgency which essentially requires almost all of a public servant’s time to ensure that services are met and delivered,&quot; he added. </p><p>He said he also wanted to spend time with his family. </p><p>&quot;Equally valuable, however, is to witness firsthand your young family grow and evolve into how every parent would wish them to become and they most need me too,&quot; the official said. <br/> </p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="ATTY VIC RODRIGUEZ" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/09/17/09172022-atty-vic-rodriguez.jpg"/></figure></div><p>Malacañang confirmed that Marcos accepted the resignation of Rodriguez. </p><p>In line with this, Marcos approved Administrative Order No. 1 creating the Office of the Presidential Chief of Staff, a post that has been <a href="https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2008/02/26/administrative-order-no-221-s-2008/">non-existent </a>since 2008. </p><p>&quot;Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez on Saturday stepped down from his position as &#x27;primus inter pares&#x27; after he got the permission from [the] President... to do so,&quot; said Cruz-Angeles. </p><p>She noted that Rodriguez will &quot;immediately assume&quot; his new post as presidential chief of staff.</p><p>The Palace official said while the Office of the Executive Secretary remains vacant for now, there are several names are being considered and currently being vetted. </p><p>Rodriguez resigned from the President&#x27;s Cabinet weeks following the sugar order fiasco. </p><p>It was Rodriguez who &quot;issued the order to create an importation plan,&quot; Cruz-Angeles said in a Palace briefing on Aug. 11. But the Palace defended Rodriguez and said he had nothing to do with the botched importation plan. </p><p>Based on documents obtained by the Manila Times, Rodriguez supposedly gave additional functions and authority to former Agriculture Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian when he was appointed to the post. </p><p>Days before Marcos&#x27; first State of the Nation Address (SONA), Rodriguez <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/22/22/executive-secretary-rodriguez-denies-resignation">denied </a>he quit the Cabinet post following allegations of irregularities. Quoting an anonymous source, a report alleged that Rodriguez resigned due to pressure in the Marcos administration’s inner circle. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/08/16/22/what-the-probe-into-the-sugar-import-mess-aims-to-achieveccc">What the probe into the sugar import mess aims to determine</a></li></ul><p>Rodriguez has been with Marcos&#x27; camp since the senator-turned-chief executive ran for vice president in 2016, and when they lodged electoral protests against the victory of Vice President Leni Robredo back then.</p><p>The 48-year-old lawyer earned his law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, before he joined the Negotiation and Influence Program of the National University of Singapore (NUS).</p><div><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2236743" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

(UPDATED) President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s long-time lawyer and spokesperson Vic Rodriguez has resigned from his post as executive secretary.

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Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez resigns: Palace

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