Overview
- Police estimated about 27,000 Iglesia Ni Cristo members gathered at Rizal Park to open a three-day protest calling for accountability.
- The presidential fact-finding commission has filed graft and plunder complaints against 37 suspects, plus tax cases against 86 construction executives and nine officials tied to nearly 9 billion pesos.
- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vowed that implicated figures will be jailed by Christmas and stated that no one is exempt from the investigation.
- Prominent names including Martin Romualdez, Chiz Escudero and Senator Bong Go have been linked to the scandal and have denied wrongdoing, with Marcos saying there is not yet evidence to charge Romualdez.
- Police and military forces are on full alert to secure the rallies, and Armed Forces chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. reaffirmed the military’s commitment to constitutional order.