SONA report to focus on govt projects, programs

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PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. yesterday said his third state of the nation address (SONA) would focus on updating the people on the status of hi administration’s programs and projects and policies it in implementing.

He will also report on the “the state of the nation” in terms of economy, criminality, and social problems, among others.

The President, in an interview in Rizal, said he is trying to squeeze in everything he wants to say in the SONA on July 22.

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Marcos said the government is assessing the state of the nation in terms of the lives of the people, and how they are doing; the economy and how it is fairing; criminality and how the government is doing in addressing that.

“How are we doing in the other problems, social problems that we are facing such as drugs, such as the different threats that have been coming to us. Marami tayong mga isyu na kailangan pag-usapan. Kaya’t ire-report — report talaga sa bayan ‘yan (How are we doing in the other problems, social problems that we are facing such as drugs, such as the different threats that have been coming to us. We have to talk about a lot of things that’s why it will be reported to the nation),” he said.

The President said the government would be coming out with briefers and materials about the different issues that he would tackle in the SONA as he would not be able to discuss all the details in his speech.

Marcos said the briefers and materials would be made public and distributed to the media, private sector, even schools to fully inform the public about the present situation along with how his administration is fairing in realizing the promises that he had made in his previous SONA.

The President is expected to endorse priority measures during the SONA, like the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act, the Philippine Maritime Zones Act, the Amendments to the Right-of-Way Act, the Excise Tax on Single-Use Plastics, the Rationalization of the Mining Fiscal Regime, and Amendments to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA).

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