Mar Roxas is new DILG chief, while Rep. Jose Emilio Abaya takes over his DOTC post

ABS-CBNNews.com reports that on Friday, August 31, President Noynoy Aquino "appointed Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Mar Roxas as the new chief of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)."

The report added that Aquino then appointed Liberal Party colleague Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya as the new secretary of the DOTC.

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