Sona report card: Hits, misses from Bongbong Marcos’ 2022 promises

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ICYMI: With the President set to deliver his second Sona on July 24, the Inquirer checked several of the promises that Marcos made in his first Sona and the status of these.

Marcos had pointed to smugglers and cartels as the drivers of price spikes in agricultural products from 2022 to early 2023. He had since ordered the National Bureau of Investigation and its mother agency, Department of Justice, to run after smuggling syndicates.Notably, Marcos also promised to help farmers by endorsing to Congress a law freeing agrarian reform beneficiaries from the debt burden.

Marcos also vowed to implement the National Broadband Plan, also known as “Broad Band ng Masa” or BBM again. This was delivered in December 2022 with 4,757 broadband sites activated in 17 regions.For health, Marcos swore no more lockdowns as a response to pandemics. While Marcos has yet to formally declare the country’s emergency status lifted, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said that the President believes that the emergency status has been de facto lifted.

 

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