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President Duterte delivered his Final State of the Nation Address - a mix of fulfilled promises and broken ones and the promise to do more in his last year in office.
It was also a mix of explanations, justifications behind certain highly criticized policy decisions like why he dealt the way he did with China or why he caused the shut down of ABS-CBN.
One thing was clear though — he kept going back to his comfort zone, the issue of drug and criminality issues that ate up much of his nearly three-hour SONA.
This final SONA was supposed to communicate Duterte’s legacy. But what kind of message actually came across to millions of Filipinos reeling from the pandemic?
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President Duterte delivered his Final State of the Nation Address - a mix of fulfilled promises and broken ones and the promise to do more in his last year in office.
It was also a mix of explanations, justifications behind certain highly criticized policy decisions like why he dealt the way he did with China or why he caused the shut down of ABS-CBN.
One thing was clear though — he kept going back to his comfort zone, the issue of drug and criminality issues that ate up much of his nearly three-hour SONA.
This final SONA was supposed to communicate Duterte’s legacy. But what kind of message actually came across to millions of Filipinos reeling from the pandemic?