Villar bares political agenda

Former Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar, who is running for senator under the NP-Team PNoy, said her advocacies are focused on agriculture, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), women and family, education, livelihood, and jobs.
Since 70 percent of poor Filipinos are in the agriculture sector, Villar vowed to support them.
‘’We want to help the poor,’’ she said. ‘’Once elected, I will push for a review of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA),’’ she added.
Villar, who has consistently entered the ‘’Magic 7’’ surveys of those who are preferred by voters to win in the May national elections, said ‘’our farmers and fishermen need adequate backing in legislation. Their requirements are the same but remain unmet until now, such as efficient and modern post-harvest facilities, irrigation systems, and farm inputs.’’
Villar said she will pursue the creation of a separate department for Filipino migrant workers – the Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW). She said there are 12 million OFWs all over the world, and some of them were not lucky enough in their work as they had been maltreated and suffered other forms of injustices abroad.
‘’We believe it is important that we have a separate department for OFWs to centralize all services and functions of OFW-related government agencies or bureaus,’’ she said.
Through the ‘’Sagip OFW Program’’ of the Villar Foundation, where she sits as managing director, the three-term congresswoman said she has personally heard all the troubles and sad plight by migrant workers.