MANILA—President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver his penultimate State of the Nation Address on Monday with his leadership severely put to test by a coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 80,000 Filipinos with no signs of slowing down.
The government has been increasingly under pressure to do more as the Philippines now tops the Southeast Asian region with the most number of active COVID-19 cases. “I think he wasn’t prepared for it,” political science professor Antonio Contreras said of the president’s response to the pandemic, one that has relied heavily on ex-military generals instead of putting health experts in the lead.
But the pandemic now requires an entirely different approach, “exposing the weakness of pandering to populist sentiments of his base constituency,” said professor Julio Teehankee, visiting fellow at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. The closure of ABS-CBN's free TV and radio broadcast triggered widespread public condemnation, even if Malacañang insisted that the president had nothing to do with it.
Like a good number of intellectuals, Contreras was drawn to the promise of this no-nonsense former city mayor elected to the presidency on the strength of more than 16 million votes. A Social Weather Stations survey from July 3 to 6 showed that 3 out of 4 Filipinos wanted Congress to grant ABS-CBN a new franchise.
PNOy is still the best President, Duterte is heartless , worthless and a china puppet.
Isang malaking Goodluck.
Ang sstupid kasi
incompetent president relying on incompetent military WHAT DO U GET?
Nature has its way of testing cruel leaders. 😠
Aalisin na din po ba ang mga Crucifix sa KAMARA, mukhang madami ang masusunog.
The president sona was so incredible amazingly amazing it was so great to have duterte manigas kau mga protesta IStandWithDuterte SONA2020
MAG UULAT NA SA BAYAN ANG ASO NG CHINA!!! MALALA NA CANCER NYAN DAPAT DYAN PINAGPAPAHIBGA NA SA ILALIM NG LUPA!!!! MUKHA NA SYANG MABAHONG BANGKAY!
'NO ONE' has ever been into this pandemic situation before. And I wonder if Mar or anyone from your presidential bets would do if they're on his shoes. Malamang fail din 😂😂
SONAALL blonde hair 😂😂
Sir, the people in VisMin are here for you.
These government hides in the skirt of armed personnel, most ex generals who knows nothing running a democratic government, they think that guns and ammos were enough, instead they sow fear and hatred from the republic!
Tutuparin ko ang tungkulin Ng mamamayang makabayan: Naglilingkod, nag-aaral at nagdarasal Ng buong katapatan Inaalay ko ang aking buhay, Pangarap, pagsisikap Sa bansang Pilipinas -PANATANGMAKABAYAN SONA2020
add filipinos who lack self-discipline.
Bitter ang ABS-CBN, puro kapalpakan daw ng gobyerno binabalita lol! No wonder no franchise was given suffer
😭catastrophic failures
Pls ABS will u expose also the strength and positive output of the President, its kinda like u always posting unpleasant to the Pres! Hmmmm
Kapag puro yabang talaga, hes a weak man inside.
Weakness in leadership was already exposed countless times even before the pandemic thru his mishandling of many natl issues. It's just that their propaganda machine was able to cover those up. Now, It's his lack (or absence) of empathy towards the people that was really exposed
Hindi ako agree sa mga sinasabi bi ng Yusingco na to dahil para skin kung 'di si President Duterte ang leader ng bansa malamang wala ng nangyari satin dahil sa pandemic na to, lagi niyo lang nakikita ang kamalian niya at pinupuna niyo na akala mo kung sinong perfect. Just saying
Bakit likod ng papel binabasa?
Yan ang resulta ng gov’t na ang head Military at Police. Pang Stone Age ang gov’t natin. Kaya yung mga common sense na problema pag hindi na kayang solution-an dadaanin sa pananakot. Ang dapat bumubuo ng gov’t ay yung mga experto at qualified at higit sa lahat may takot sa Diyos
The best PRESIDENT 👏🥳👊✊ salamat Tay
'My god! I hate drugs! I hate oligarchs!' Highlight: appeal for pity'I'm tired, pagod na ako' Duh!!!
lols congress ang nagpahinto sa inyo bakit anung covid efforts ang hindi natutukan dahil sa pagsasara nyo. Anu nag-attend ba ang executive department sa mga hearing nyo?
DuterteResign SONA2020
The pandemic is God's way of revealing the WICKED. Also Nature's way of exposing the TRASH.
kabobohan yung resign fixes problems narrative sa replies. that doesn't deal with the problem at all lalo na kung politics involved na may vultures ready to prey sa paligid.
which one
Dati ang binibilang sa SONA yung mga fake at totoong palakpak. Ngayon sa administrasyon nya, ang binibilang eh yung mga lies and fake and unverifiable 'data'. Goodluck. BoycottSONA2020 SONA2020
inutil! mag resign ka na
Yeah it is a test of a country's president's leadership. It will bring out the worst or the best, depending on what was innate already.
SONA you are dealing with pure cheapness and revenge, so our country is no longer advancing, 4 years nothing happened, the country is in debt,kawawa ang Pinas because it is in the wrong hands right now.
duterte wants puppets not experts.
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