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𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩. 𝐑𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡 𝐆. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 The speech was partly a lecture on the Medium Term Development Plan. For those expecting SONA as theatre, what he delivered instead was a teach-in. He traded oratorical flair for as many facts as he

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩. 𝐑𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡 𝐆. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 SONA is not just a throwback moment for the year gone by, but a battleplan on how we can fast-forward to what we hope to achieve. It is not a mere replay of the past, but a preview of the future,

Press Release 12 May 2023 The recently passed House bill effectively regionalizing heart, lung, kidney and 13 other specialty centers will help “medical evacuees” who flee to big cities for treatment and medical scholars whose studies are funded by the government in order to plug

Statement of Rep. Ralph G. Recto on President BBM’s SONA 25 July 2022 A data-driven SONA which paints the future using numbers – Recto It was a data-driven SONA. Others before him had used words to conjure the future. He painted it using numbers. And that makes his SONA

We remember the dead and recognize the heroes, but the best way to honor them is for government to arm for a final push against the virus that will end the stalemate and turn the tide in our favor. Like any war, the people can only be assured of victory not with words but with a

I think the President economized in spelling out his anti-pandemic program, which is what Filipinos were expecting to hear more from him.  He could have made it detailed and nuanced, in a language that is comforting, assuring and emphatic.  It scored low in the

I think people are not looking forward to the soaring oratory, the poetry of a traditional SONA. They are not even interested in bold strokes. What they want to hear is the to-do list in a wartime SONA that will spell out the battle plan against the pandemic. Specifically, they

The message is more important than where the messenger is.  Laurel did not deliver any, Osmeña just once, and Quirino via radio from a hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland, USA where he was recuperating. The principal audience of the SONA are not the politicians inside the