President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) might be among the many shortest because the custom started, in response to remarks made by House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
As reported by Mav Gonzales and Katrina Son on GMA’s “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday, Romualdez stated Marcos’ SONA scheduled on Monday, July 24, might take an hour or much less to ship.
“I have heard that might just be about one hour long, mga [about] 45 minutes. I have not seen, I don’t know what he will take about,” he was quoted as saying.
Former president and now House Deputy Speaker and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was recorded to have delivered the shortest SONA with 1,556 phrases. The common length of her 9 SONAs is estimated at 50 minutes.
“All I can tell you as we are approaching this first-year anniversary so to speak or the second SONA, right now, the country as you’ve already seen, is clocking as the fastest growth rate in terms of GDP [gross domestic product] globally in the world,” Romualdez stated.
The Philippine financial system grew by 6.1% within the first quarter of 2023, slower than the 8.0% development the identical quarter final 12 months and the 7.1% enlargement within the final quarter of 2022. Second-quarter figures have but to be launched.
While Romualdez didn’t present any qualifiers for his assertion of the quickest GDP development fee on the earth, different areas in Asia alone have recorded quicker expansions within the first quarter: Macau with 38.0%, and Armenia with 12.1%.
Marcos final week stated his SONA will probably be “really very simple” and could be a “performance report” for Filipinos to see which of his pronouncements have been realized.
The Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City has already been in lockdown since Thursday, July 20, forward of Marcos’ SONA. — BM, GMA Integrated News
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