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If you suffer from occasional bouts of wanting to resign as a Filipino, you need to listen to this young man who slayed the Eusebios’ old politics in 2019 and is gunning for reelection for a last term in May 2025
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that aired on Friday, August 30. If you suffer from occasional bouts of wanting to resign as a Filipino, you need to listen to this young man whoand is gunning for reelection for a last term in May 2025. In the interview, Vico was both forthright and measured, stern and at ease, a nerd and a politician. Not perfect with still a lot to learn, by his own admission, but certainly a breath of fresh air in a country of bratty, high-spending, and self-promoting elected executives.
Vico conceded that improving systems and workflows don’t get attention, but he did three things that brought services direct to his constituents. The annual Christmas gifts were brought door to door instead of through agencies or officials, to avoid. Public hospitals were ordered to accommodate all Pasig residents and they did not need to have a health card to avail of health services. And he regularized contractuals who, in the past, were forced to make up for low salary via illegal means.
Vico’s primary focus, however, was the procurement process. In his view, reforming it addresses the chunk of corruption in Pasig . You clean up procurement, you clean up the government, he explained, because the entire process feeds a “corruption ecosystem.” In 2021, the US State Department named him
Surely he must have been tempted to go the other way? Whenever that arose, Vico said, he would go back to his list of non-negotiables which he had written down when he campaigned for mayor and which he and his core of advisers keep tabs of. The list breaks down his mission, he said, which is to institute meaningful — notBesides Vico, several mayors have made great strides in streamlining processes and improving how services can reach their constituents to make their cities liveable.
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