Mocha Uson Appointed as Deputy Administrator of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)

Former Philippine Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) assistant secretary, Mocha Uson, has been appointed as Deputy Administrator of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).

OWWA is an attached agency of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

Uson was included in the list of new presidential appointees.

Uson will be replacing former OWWA Deputy Administrator Arnaldo Arevalo “Arnell” Ignacio, who resigned in February this year.

Who is Mocha Uson?

Uson ran as a congresswoman under the AA Kasosyo party-list system in the May 2019 midterm elections but lost.

Uson was appointed as PCOO Assistant Secretary in May 2017 and resigned in October 2018 .

Some groups are against the appointment of Uson, saying that it’s illegal as “losing candidate is barred from assuming the position in the government within a year after the elections.”

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said, however, that Uson is not covered by the one-year appointment ban.