Opposition lawmakers enumerate key issues that President Marcos failed to mention during his State of the Nation Address, and challenge some of the claims he made. SONA2023 MarcosYear1
MANILA, Philippines – The opposition in Congress under the current administration is minuscule, but it’s still there, and these lawmakers are airing their suggestions and frustrations in the wake of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation Address .
Here are the points they raised. This story will be updated once other opposition figures present their own “counter-SONA.”Marcos pointed out that inflation has eased, when comparing June figures from January. “What magic wand did you wield to ease the inflation? Or the inflation waned as a result of normal economic dynamics without much government intervention,” Lagman said.
Marcos guaranteed that the structure of the fund would protect it from any political influence, but Gabriela Representative Arlene Brosas is not convinced. “Despite Marcos Jr.’s repeated vows to bring down the price of rice to P20 per kilo, he did not mention in his speech that there has been no significant progress in achieving this goal. He has no concrete plan to boost local production and the rice and food industry,” she claimed.
But Lagman sounded the alarm on the hundreds of drug war-related deaths recorded during the first year of the Marcos presidency.Marcos did not mention the International Criminal Court’s probe into the killings under the Duterte administration.
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