Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin (File photo)
MANILA – Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Tuesday shut down rumors that he resigned from the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
“It is fake news and part of black propaganda,” he said in a message to reporters.
The Presidential Communications Office on Saturday also denied Bersamin’s supposed resignation.
Bersamin was appointed Executive Secretary in September last year after the resignation of his predecessor, Victor Rodriguez.
As an Executive Secretary, he is referred to as the “Little President" who is mandated to “directly assist the President in the management of affairs of the government, as well as to direct the operations of the Executive Office," according to the Official Gazette.
Before being appointed Executive Secretary, Bersamin served as chairperson of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) under the leadership of Marcos’ predecessor, former president Rodrigo Duterte.
He was named the country's top magistrate in November 2018 and retired from the judiciary in October 2019.
A native of Abra, Bersamin finished his law degree at the University of the East in 1973 and placed ninth in the bar examinations in the same year.
He served as presiding judge of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 96 in 1986.
In 2003, he was appointed associate justice at the Court of Appeals and was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2009. (PNA)
