SENATE minority leader Aquilino Pimentel III yesterday said he would give President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. an “incomplete” performance rating on his one-and-a-half years as chief executive because the latter has yet to fulfill his campaign promises.
In a Zoom interview, Pimentel said President Marcos should have been done with the “honeymoon” period and buckled down to work to make true his campaign promises of bringing the price of rice down to P20 per kilo, construction of 1 million low-cost housing annually, and the electrification of far-flung areas, among others.
“So far, incomplete. Where is promised P20 per kilo rice? The 1 million housing? It seems government has constructed only around 8,000 houses,” he said in Filipino.
Pimentel said the President should just admit that during the campaign, he made promises that people want to hear.
“You can become overly optimistic during the campaign because you utter words that the people want to hear. It is now different after you have been elected because you have the data. If you have said those words during the campaign, better make some adjustments now because what I have seen during the budget process is that the programs are totally unattainable,” he said.
