President Marcos Jr. appointed SAGIP Representative Rodante Marcoleta as new secretary of the Department of Energy . : The claim was made in the title of a YouTube video posted on July 26 which has 176,000 views, 3,500 likes, and 404 comments as of writing. The channel that posted the video has 741,000 subscribers and has been fact-checked by Rappler multiple times.
However, Marcoleta, who had reservations about the Department of Energy’s projected course under Lotilla’s leadership,A lawyer and congressman, Marcoleta decided to withdraw his senatorial candidacy from Marcos’ political group a few weeks before the May 9, 2022 general elections. Currently, Marcoleta serves as the elected representative of the Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty party-list organization in the 19th Congress. for the Commission on Human Rights in 2018. During budget deliberations, Marcoleta criticized the CHR for allegedly giving more weight to the United Nations special rapporteur’s opinions and questioned its failure to protect President Rodrigo Duterte’s human rights amid criticism of his bloody anti-drug campaign.