{"id":232976,"date":"2019-09-30T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232976"},"modified":"2019-09-30T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T23:20:25","slug":"mocha-uson-appointed-as-owwa-deputy-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/30\/mocha-uson-appointed-as-owwa-deputy-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Mocha Uson appointed as OWWA Deputy Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184056\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mocha-Uson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mocha-Uson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mocha-Uson.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mocha-Uson-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to a list of new presidential appointees, Uson was appointed as Deputy Administrator of the OWWA on Sept. 23 but a copy of the document was released on Monday (Sept. 30). (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mochablogger\/photos\/a.10150517244941522\/10156922613671522\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mochablogger\/\">MOCHA USON BLOG\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;Margaux \u201cMocha\u201d Uson, former Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), has been appointed to the Overseas Workers Welfare Association (OWWA).<\/p>\n<p>According to a list of new presidential appointees, Uson was appointed as Deputy Administrator of the OWWA on Sept. 23 but a copy of the document was released on Monday (Sept. 30).<\/p>\n<p>She will be replacing former OWWA Deputy Administrator Arnaldo Arevalo &#8220;Arnell&#8221; Ignacio, who tendered his resignation in February this year.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Ignacio bared he resigned due to \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d and wished him well.<\/p>\n<p>OWWA is an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).<\/p>\n<p>In a Senate hearing on PCOO\u2019s budget on Oct. 3, 2018, Uson announced her resignation stressing that Congress was purposely delaying the agency\u2019s deliberations because of her.<\/p>\n<p>Uson has drew flak for posting a video on her personal blog showing Drew Olivar, her co-host in Good News Game Show, singing and dancing while making vulgar gestures to promote the shift to a federalism system of government.<\/p>\n<p>She was also criticized for releasing another video mocking sign language but has apologized for her mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Uson, a pro-Duterte blogger and entertainer, was appointed as PCOO Assistant Secretary in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>She ran as representative of the AA Kasosyo party-list in the May 2019 midterm elections but lost.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said that Uson, being a losing party-list candidate, is not covered by the one-year appointment ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8211;Margaux \u201cMocha\u201d Uson, former Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), has been appointed to the Overseas Workers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":184056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232978,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232976\/revisions\/232978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}