— President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his second State of the Nation Address on Monday, firmly enumerating his administration’s gains in the past year as he sought to assure a nation that remains beset by economic woes.
Shortly after taking the podium at the Batasang Pambansa at 4:06 p.m., Marcos dove straight into highlighting the country’s post-pandemic economic progress. He noted that “while global prospects were bleak,” the Philippines posted a 7.6% economic growth in 2022, its highest in 46 years. Without going into detail, Marcos said his government will continue implementing agrarian reforms. He noted his recent approval of the New Agrarian Emancipation Act, which writes off the loans of agrarian reform beneficiaries. It was the only measure he mentioned in last year’s SONA that became a law.
Amid renewed attention on the government’s war on drugs, Marcos said the campaign continues but has taken on a new face — one which he said is geared more towards treatment and rehabilitation. Earlier, Marcos admitted that the Duterte administration’s drug war led to “abuses,” but he made no mention of these violations in both his first and second SONA. He also left out the International Criminal Court’s resumption of its probe into Duterte's brutal crackdown -- an inquiry the current administration has vehemently opposed as it questioned the tribunal's jurisdiction.
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