President-elect Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. added two more personalities to his Cabinet, his camp announced on Saturday.
In a statement, incoming press secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said Marcos appointed former Deputy Commissioner Lilia Guillermo as the new chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
Guillermo is currently the assistant governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ((BSP), where she leads the Technology and Digital Innovation Office. She was also a former deputy commissioner of the BIR.
Joining Guillermo at the BIR is Atty. Romeo "Jun" Lumagui Jr. whom the president-elect nominated as Deputy Commissioner for Operations-designate, Angeles added.
Meanwhile, retired Philippine National Police Deputy Director General Ricardo de Leon was named as the next National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) director-general.
De Leon, who is a member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) "Matatag" Class of 1971, currently serves as the president of the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC).
With the nomination, de Leon would become part of the president-elect's security cluster with other officials from the departments of National Defense, the Interior and Local Government, Foreign Affairs, and Justice; the Armed Forces of the Philippines; Philippine National Police; and the National Bureau of Investigation.
