Now that he has been elected as the country's 17th president, Marcos Jr. appears to be not stepping out of the shadow of his strongman father and namesake, based on some of his appointments and policies.
IN a speech in Abra six years ago, then-vice presidential candidate Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. vowed that he would not follow in the footsteps of his father, the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.Now that he has been elected as the country's 17th president, Marcos Jr. appears to be not stepping out of the shadow of his strongman father and namesake, based on some of his appointments and policies.
What will he do to lower fuel prices, which should create a domino effect on the prices of consumer goods? Can he really bring down the price of rice to P20 per kilogram, as he promised during the election campaign?News reports say Marcos Jr. is left with too little money to spend for the second half of 2022 because his predecessor had already released 93.2 percent, or P4.68 trillion, of the P5.02 trillion national government outlay for the entire year.
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