It will be interesting to see how Pichardo spins this.
From today's Sosua News:
The administrator of the National Lottery is desperate because he has not enough resources to pay out the prizes. The lottery is set by the state to increase tax revenues. But now, somehow, somebody of the government took such large amount of the prize money that there is not enough left to pay the winners. The winners are, and that's understandable, very displeased. The government took more than one billion pesos from the pot and that's more than 70% of the invested money. The administrator now fears that the lottery is declining in popularity.
But he hopes that he can compensate the winners from the income of the next draw.
From today's Sosua News:
The administrator of the National Lottery is desperate because he has not enough resources to pay out the prizes. The lottery is set by the state to increase tax revenues. But now, somehow, somebody of the government took such large amount of the prize money that there is not enough left to pay the winners. The winners are, and that's understandable, very displeased. The government took more than one billion pesos from the pot and that's more than 70% of the invested money. The administrator now fears that the lottery is declining in popularity.
But he hopes that he can compensate the winners from the income of the next draw.