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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) declared a authorities of national vigor exigency successful effect to the West Asia struggle and what he called an “imminent danger” posed to the country’s vigor supply.
Mr. Marcos said a Committee has been formed to guarantee the orderly movement, supply, organisation and availability of fuel, food, medicines, cultivation products and different indispensable goods.
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In an executive bid shared with media, Mr. Marcos said the struggle had created uncertainty successful planetary vigor markets, terrible proviso concatenation disruption and important volatility and upward unit connected international lipid prices “thereby posing a menace to the country’s vigor security”.
“The declaration of a authorities of nationalist vigor exigency volition enable the authorities ... to instrumentality responsive and coordinated measures nether existing laws to code the risks posed by disruptions successful the planetary vigor proviso and the home economy,” helium said.
The declaration, which will stay successful effect for 1 year, authorises the authorities to procure required substance and petroleum products to guarantee timely and capable proviso and, if necessary, wage portion of the declaration magnitude successful advance. Philippine Energy Secretary Sharon Garin earlier connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) told a quality briefing the state had astir 45 days of substance supply based connected existent depletion levels.
She said the government was moving to procure 1 cardinal barrels of lipid from countries wrong and extracurricular Southeast Asia to physique its buffer stock.
