IN three days, President Rodrigo Duterte leaves Malacañang with the International Criminal Court's probe of the drug war-related violations hanging over his head, and leaving behind a country heavily in debt and corruption at its worst.At the same time, Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. assumes the presidency with high expectations that he would keep his positive and hopeful message of unity, which gave him the third-highest mandate of 58.
The country got a score of 34 points in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2012; 35 points 2016 and 2015; 36 points in 2018 and 2013; and 38 points — its highest — in 2014, under the presidency of Benigno Aquino 3rd.The CPI report used a scoring scale of zero to 100, where 100 means 'very clean' and zero means 'highly corrupt.' The index measures experts' and business people's perceived level of corruption in the public sector.
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