third Sona of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

[Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 22, 2024]

Thanks.

Permit me to greet the previous presidents who’re with us right here at this time: President Joseph Ejercito Estrada and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; Senate President Chiz Escudero and the honorable members of the Senate; Home Speaker Martin Romualdez and the honorable members of the Home of Representatives; Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo and the honorable justices of the Supreme Courtroom; His Excellency, the Most Reverend Charles John Brown and the esteemed members of the Diplomatic Corps; Govt Secretary Lucas Bersamin and the members of the Cupboard; in fact the First Girl, the First Girl Louise Araneta-Marcos [applause]; different distinguished visitors; mga minamahal kong kababayan, magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat.

The onerous lesson of this final yr has made it very clear that no matter present information proudly bannering our nation as among the many best-performing in Asia, means nothing to a Filipino, who’s confronted by the worth of rice at 45 to 65 pesos per kilo.

Bagamat maganda ang mga istatistikang ito, wala itong kabuluhan sa ating kababayan na hinaharap ang realidad na mataas ang presyo ng mga bilihin, lalo na ang pagkain — lalo’t higit, ng bigas.

Totoo, puwersa ng merkado — sa ating bansa at maging sa buong daigdig — ang siyang nagdidikta ng presyo. Bunsod ito, halimbawa, ng giyera, problema sa provide, at puwersa ng kalikasan, tulad ng El Niño na naranasan din sa ibang bansa. Subalit hindi na ito mahalagang alalahanin ng ating mga kababayang nabibigatan sa presyo ng bigas.

Mahal kong mga kababayan, alam kong damang-dama ninyo ito. Hindi natin winawalang-bahala ang inyong mga hinaing at hirap na dinaranas.

Sa kabila ng mga hamon na ating kinakaharap, nasaksihan natin ang pinakamataas na ani ng palay sa bansa nitong nakalipas na taon. [applause] Pumalo ito sa lagpas dalawampung milyong tonelada — ang pinakamataas na ani mula noong 1987. [applause]

Gayumpaman, ang ani na ito ay katumbas lamang ng labintatlong milyong tonelada ng bigas. Kulang pa rin ito para sa ating pangangailangan na labing anim na milyong tonelada ng bigas, kung kaya’t napipilitan tayong mag-angkat.

Ngunit, lokal na produksyon pa rin ang ating mas bibigyan ng halaga.

Kaya patuloy nating sinusuportahan ang sektor ng agrikultura, upang mapabilis, mapadali, at mapalakas ang produksyon — mula sa pagpunla, pag-ani at paghuli, hanggang sa pagbiyahe at pagbenta — upang maiwasan din ang pagkasira ng mga produkto.

Nitong nakalipas na taon, higit isandaang milyong kilo ng mga sari-saring binhi, suwi, at pataba ang ipinamahagi sa mga magsasaka. Namigay rin ang pamahalaan ng mahigit tatlong daang libong inahin upang ito ay maparami.

Para naman sa mga mangingisda, mahigit limandaang milyong fingerlings at tatlong libong mga bangka ang naipamahagi. Nakakatulong din ang mga ginawa at inayos na mga fish port at chilly storage upang masuportahan ang kanilang industriya.

Bukod pa sa mga ito, naroon din ang mga teknikal at pinansyal na tulong para sa dagdag na kaalaman sa mga makabagong pamamaraan at pagkukunan ng sapat na puhunan.

Handa na rin ang pamahalaan na ilabas ang mga bakuna laban sa Swine Fever na magpapalakas sa mga alagang hayop at magbibigay ng garantiya sa mga magsasaka laban sa pagkalugi. [applause]

Nagsasagawa rin tayo ng mga kaugnay na hakbang upang pababain ang presyo at madagdagan din ang ating provide ng pagkain.

Due to compelling emergency causes, corresponding to unlawful value manipulations by hoarders and smuggling, we had been constrained to quickly implement mandated value ceilings on rice. We additionally prolonged the diminished tariff charges to facilitate the importation of rice, corn, and pork till the top of this yr.

Tinitiyak ko sa ating mga magsasaka at sa buong sektor ng agrikultura na ang mga ito ay pawang pang-gipitang solusyon lamang.

Sa repormang sakahan naman, tuloy pa rin ang ating programa, at ang pamamahagi ng mga titulo sa ating mga magsasaka. Sa nakalipas na dalawang taon, mahigit isangdaan at tatlumpung libong titulo na ang ating naigawad sa mga benepisyaryo. [applause] Tuloy-tuloy din at pinabibilis pa natin ang pagkakahati-hati ng collective Certificates of Land Possession Award o ‘yung CLOA para sa mga indibidwal na benepisyaryo nito.

Pinamamahagi na rin ang mga Certificates of Condonation, kaugnay ng pagpapawalang-bisa sa mahigit limampu’t pitong bilyong pisong utang ng could anim na raang libong benepisyaryo. [applause]

Bukod pa rito, naresolba rin ang mahigit pitumpung libong mga kaso patungkol sa repormang agraryo. Kasama rito ang mahigit dalawang libong kasong matagal nang nakabinbin bago pa man pumasok ang administrasyon.

Via modernized customs procedures and heightened enforcement efforts, greater than 2.7 billion pesos value of smuggled agri-fisheries merchandise have been seized, stopping them from coming into the market and negatively influencing costs. [applause]

Bilang leksyon, ang mga nasabat na kargamento ng bigas ay agad nating ipinamahagi sa ating mga mahihirap na kababayan. Ganoon din ang sasapitin ng lahat ng mga ipupuslit na mga bigas. Ang ibang mga produkto naman ay ating sisirain o susunugin — bukod pa sa pagkakakulong sa mga mahuhuling mga salarin. [applause]

Quickly, we shall be implementing the pre-border technical verification and cross-border digital invoicing of import commodities.

It will ship a robust message that we imply critical enterprise.

To cut back pointless enterprise prices, native authorities items not acquire charges and costs from motorists transporting items and merchandise whereas passing by way of nationwide roads. [applause]  On the identical precept, LGUs have been strongly urged to chorus from amassing related charges for the usage of native roads. [applause]

Nagsilbing kaagapay ng taumbayan ang Kadiwa sa panahon na mataas ang presyo ng pagkain. Dahil naging epektibo ito, ang mga Kadiwa Facilities ay magpapatuloy pa.

Katuwang ang mga lokal na pamahalaan, dinagdagan pa natin ang mga Kadiwa sa iba’t ibang panig ng bansa. Higit sa lahat, layunin nating gawing permanente rin at mas madalas pa ang pagdaraos ng mga Kadiwa. [applause]

Matatapos ngayong taon ang isanlibo at dalawang daang kilometro ng mga farm-to-market roads sa buong bansa. Mahigit siyam na libo’t tatlong daang makinarya ang maipapamahagi at pasilidad na magagawa ngayong taon.

Patuloy tayong nagbubukas at nagkukumpuni ng mga irigasyon sa buong Pilipinas.

Ngayong taon, bibigyan natin ng patubig ang halos apatnapu’t limang libong ektarya ng bagong lupain. [applause] Bubuhayin din nating muli ang irigasyon sa halos tatlumpu’t walong libong ektarya ng lupain sa buong bansa.

Isa sa mga natapos na proyekto ay ang stage two ng Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Venture. Halos sampung libong ektarya ng lupain sa North Cotabato at sa Maguindanao del Sur ang maseserbisyuhan ng irigasyon na ito. [applause]

Ang ilan sa mga ginagawa nating irigasyon ngayon ay photo voltaic. Ibig sabihin, pinapatakbo ang mga ito ng haring araw, hindi nauubos, at hindi nangangailangan ng paggamit ng krudo. Isang halimbawa ay ang kakabukas lamang na Cabaruan Photo voltaic-Powered Pump Irrigation Venture sa Quirino, Isabela. [applause]

Samantala, dahil sa Jalaur River Multipurpose Venture sa Iloilo, halos tatlumpu’t dalawang libong ektarya ng lupain ang mabibigyan ng patubig. [applause]

Patutunayan ng proyekto sa Jalaur River ang pinalalawig na potensyal ng irigasyon. Hindi na lamang patubig sa sakahan ang kaya nitong gawin. Ito na rin ay magagamit sa pagkontrol ng baha, paglikha ng kuryente, at pati na rin para sa turismo.

Shifting ahead, irrigation dams will complement all our different bulk water tasks to make sure water safety for our individuals, particularly within the underserved areas.

Matindi ang naging epekto ng dumaang El Niño, lalo na sa mga sakahan. Sa tinamong pinsala mula sa pagkasira ng mga pananim, nagkaroon ng proteksyon ang ating mga magsasaka sa pamamagitan ng ating binigay na crop insurance coverage.

Sa nakalipas na dalawang taon, mahigit siyam na [bilyong] pisong halaga ang naging bayad-pinsala para sa mga apektadong magsasaka at mangingisda.

Ngunit mainam na rin na nailunsad nang maaga ang mga modernong paraan ng pagtatanim, tulad ng low-water- use farming applied sciences.

Sa ating nasimulan sa proyektong LAWA at BINHI, isinasagawa na ang mga modernong imbakan ng tubig, upang lalong maging handa at protektado ang ating mga magsasaka sa banta ng tagtuyot.

As we are able to see in all of the world, climate occasions are, as has been predicted, getting extra excessive, corresponding to torrential rains that immediately shift to scorching warmth waves — or vice- versa. Our nation’s geographical location makes us extremely weak to the adversarial results of local weather change.

Exactly due to our inherent vulnerability, we’re proactive advocates for heightened local weather accountability and justice on the worldwide stage. To this finish, we’ve secured a seat on the Board of the Loss and Injury Fund. And additional, the Philippines has additionally been chosen as host nation to that fund. [applause]

This will require an enabling regulation from Congress to confer the authorized persona and capability to the Board.

This welcome improvement shall complement all our different local weather adaptation and mitigation measures, and provides us a robust voice to entry the wanted monetary help for climate-related initiatives and impacts.

Gayumpaman, ang pinakamahalaga ay ang buong bansa ay matibay at laging handa sa nakakapinsalang mga sakuna. Nangunguna ang ating mga DRRM staff upang tiyakin ang ating malawakang paghahanda, at ang ating pagiging mulat at listo sa anumang oras.

Bilang pangunahing paghahanda, nagtatayo tayo ng mga mahahalagang imprastraktura na magsisilbing proteksyon at sentro ng koordinasyon, lalo na sa aspeto ng paghahatid-tulong.

Inside the previous two years, virtually 100 evacuation facilities have already been constructed. Whereas in January of this yr, we began the operations of our Catastrophe Response Command Heart, which shall function the central hub for the federal government’s catastrophe response efforts.

Ngayon, sa pagpihit ng panahon, ang hagupit ng La Niña at mga matinding pag-ulan naman ang ating binabantayan at pinaghahandaan.

Mahigit limanglibo at limang daang flood management tasks ang natapos na at marami pang iba ang kasalukuyang ginagawa sa buong bansa. [applause]

Isa na rito ay ang Flood Threat Administration Venture sa Cagayan de Oro River, na magbibigay ng pangmatagalang proteksyon sa mahigit anim na raang ektarya ng lupa at animnapung libo nating mga kababayan. [applause] Isa pa ay ang proyekto sa Pampanga Bay na magsisilbing karagdagang lunas sa mga pagbabaha.

Noong Enero, inilunsad natin ang “KALINISAN sa Bagong Pilipinas”, kung saan pinakilos natin ang ating mga barangay upang maglinis sa kani-kanilang komunidad. Sa limang buwan lamang, mahigit apatnapung libong tonelada ng basura ang nakolekta ng mahigit dalawampu’t dalawang libong mga barangay sa buong bansa. Inaasahan ko ang tuloy-tuloy na suporta ng mga lokal na pamahalaan sa paglilinis ng ating pamayanan. [applause]

Bilang halimbawa rin dito sa Maynila, nagsimula na ang malawakang pagtutulungan upang Bigyang Buhay Muli ang Ilog Pasig. [applause]

As we enter the mid-term, our infrastructure improvement stays sustained, strategic, and on schedule.

Except for agriculture and catastrophe threat, our different important sectors and pillars — corresponding to schooling, well being, vitality, low-cost housing, transport, data expertise — all of them stand to profit from our aggressive infrastructure improvement, as befitting our higher middle-income financial goal.

With the outcomes that we’ve seen two years into this administration, we can declare that regardless of challenges, we’re steadily progressing in direction of our targets within the medium-term.

Our energy and web providers are constantly being upgraded in each capability and connectivity.

Sa ating Free Wi-Fi Program, halos sampung milyong distinctive consumer gadgets ang nakikinabang sa libreng web sa mahigit labintatlong libong lugar sa buong Pilipinas. [applause] Nasasagap ito sa marami nating mga paaralan at mga malalayo at liblib na mga pook. Patuloy pa ang ating pinaparami na mga libreng Wi-Fi sa buong bansa.

As a part of our nationwide web infrastructure improvement, part 1 of the Nationwide Fiber Spine has been accomplished and operationalized. Phases 2 and three have already begun early this yr, and shall be accomplished by 2026. This fiber spine will give us adequate capability when it comes to bandwidth.

As of 2022, solely seventy-seven % or 20.6 million households had been related to the Web.

This is a lot too low.

Along with our personal sector companions, we’ll effectively harness the idea of frequent towers to offer connectivity to Filipinos who’re on the far finish of the final mile. Count on full authorities help to make sure the profitable completion of this essential undertaking, together with coverage reforms and streamlined processes. [applause]

Greater and sooner IT infrastructure requires stronger and extra impervious cyber-defense. Our not too long ago launched Nationwide Cybersecurity Plan lays down the blueprint for us to safeguard our programs in opposition to cyberattacks.

With these stated, I’ve directed the companies involved to make sure that the pace and high quality of our IT improvement all the time mirrors the tempo and trajectory of our financial aspirations.

As vitality tasks get accomplished and new investments pour into the sector, we count on our nation’s energy provide to improve at a regular tempo to meet our rising demand within the subsequent few years. Nonetheless, we’re constantly diagnosing and urgently addressing energy shortages, as properly as the systemic causes of blackouts in unserved and underserved areas.

Nireremedyuhan natin ang pangangailangan ng mga lugar na wala pang kuryente at madalas ma-brownout, sa pamamagitan ng microgrid at off-grid programs, at mga missionary small energy utilities na sinusuportahan pa rin ng photo voltaic.

Working by way of Bataan, Pampanga, and Bulacan, the newly inaugurated Mariveles-Hermosa-San Jose transmission line will additional strengthen the reliability of the Luzon energy grid. [applause]

Within the Visayas, all phases of the Cebu-Negros-Panay spine undertaking have likewise been accomplished. This undertaking shall serve to stabilize the facility state of affairs in Western and Central Visayas, and avert recurrences of energy outages skilled prior to now.

Dahil sa proyektong ito, naiwasan ang blackouts sa Panay Island noong Abril hanggang Hunyo, sa kabila ng yellow at crimson alerts sa rehiyon. [applause]

And simply final week, the Dumanjug-Corella Line of the Cebu-Bohol Interconnection Venture was energized, enabling the switch of energy between Cebu and Bohol.

With these programs at present working at capability, these main energy strains shall contribute to the environment friendly energy exchanges not solely between Luzon and the Visayas, but additionally involving Mindanao. Vitality sharing and transfers between, amongst, and inside the three island teams have now been made attainable with the energization final January of the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection. [applause]

The energization of the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection is a defining second not just for the facility sector however for your entire nation. Lastly, we’ve related the facility grids of all three main island teams. [applause]

The “unified Philippine Grid” is a achievement of this dream, whose seeds had been planted within the 80s, by way of a imaginative and prescient bolstered by R&D, which we achieved by making use of typical Filipino persistence and dedication.

Batid nating lahat na ang presyo ng kuryente dito sa ating bansa ay mataas. Kaya patuloy tayo sa padadagdag ng mga imprastraktura ng kuryente na magpapababa ng presyo sa kalaunan.

Sa kabilang banda, tinitiyak din nating makatarungan ang paniningil sa mga konsyumer.

Ilan sa mga hakbang na pinatupad ng pamahalaan ay: una, ang mas maayos at patas na Lifeline Fee program para sa mga mahihirap, lalo na sa mga benepisyaryo ng 4Ps; [applause]

Pangalawa, ang naging pansamantalang pagsuspinde ng FIT-All Tariff sa ating electrical invoice;

Pangatlo, ang Anti-Invoice Shock program;

At pang-apat, ang naging pagsuspinde ng Wholesale Electrical energy Spot Market noong panahon na nag-red alert sa Luzon at Visayas grids;

At ang pang-huli, mga refund at pagpapatanggal ng mga sobrang singil sa konsyumer, tulad ng franchise price. [applause]

Binabalikan at binubusisi nating muli ang EPIRA upang malaman kung angkop pa ba ito sa ating kasalukuyang sitwasyon, o napapanahon na, na ito ay amyendahan. [applause]

Hinihiling ko sa Kongreso na pagtulungan na natin ito, alang-alang sa kapakanan ng mga Pilipino. Sa taas ng presyo ng kuryente sa bansa, nahihirapan hindi lamang ang mga negosyante — kung hindi lalo na ang taumbayan. [applause]

As of Could this yr, twelve thousand kilometers value of roads and multiple thousand 200 bridges have been constructed and upgraded throughout the nation. [applause]

Of be aware, we’ve offered the finances to improve 300 sixty-seven bridges and virtually one thousand 600 kilometers of highway alongside our nation’s longest thoroughfare — the Maharlika Freeway — from Luzon all the way in which to Mindanao.

Furthermore, vital segments of main expressways, that are a part of the Luzon Backbone Expressway Community, have now been opened to the general public.

The C-LEX, NLEX-SLEX Connector, and the Plaridel Bypass shall be absolutely accomplished by the top of this yr. [applause] CALAX and the C5 South Hyperlink will be absolutely operational by subsequent yr.

Dahil sa mga mahahalagang daan na ito, ang Norte, Gitnang Luzon, Maynila, at Katimugang Luzon ay lalo pa ngayon magiging mas konektado sa isa’t isa.

Beneath our Inter-Island Linkage Bridge Program, we count on two main bridges to be opened to motorists this yr. One is the Panguil Bay Bridge — touted because the longest water-spanning bridge in Northern Mindanao. [applause] This bridge will join Lanao del Norte to Misamis Occidental. The opposite is the Guicam Bridge in Zamboanga Sibugay, which shall join Olutanga Island to the mainland of Mindanao. [applause]

As well as, journey to and from Clark Airport is now a lot sooner and extra handy, with the inauguration of the twenty-kilometer Airport-New Clark Metropolis Entry Highway in Pampanga. [applause]

We’re additionally within the midst of a “railway renaissance”. The Metro Manila Subway Venture has logged vital accomplishments in its tunneling works. Sa puntong ito, katumbas na ng tatlo hanggang anim na palapag ang lalim na nahukay, at tuloy-tuloy na na umuusad sa susunod na istasyon.

Different railway tasks, such because the MRT-7 and the North-South Commuter Railway, are likewise progressing.

We’ll be sure that the right-of-way points are resolved in probably the most equitable, environment friendly, and expeditious method in order that these won’t get in the way in which of our infrastructure improvement.

Bilang bahagi ng LRT 1 Cavite Extension undertaking, ang ruta ng LRT Line 1 sa Metro Manila ay madadagdagan mula sa Baclaran hanggang Sucat. Bubuksan ito sa publiko sa loob ng taong ito. At sa ilang taon, aabot na ang linya na ito hanggang Bacoor.

Nagdagdag din tayo ng pitumpu’t anim na bago at modernong mga tren sa LRT 1 upang mas dumami, bumilis, at maging mas kumportable ang biyahe ng mga pasahero. [applause]

Kamakailan lamang, binuksan naman nating muli sa publiko ang PNR Bicol Line na could habang isandaang kilometro, mula Naga hanggang sa Legazpi. [applause]

Gayundin, patuloy ang pagpapaganda ng ating mga paliparan at ng ating mga daungan para sa ikakaginhawa ng ating mga manlalakbay. Unang-una na rito ay ang Paliparan ng Maynila. Sa pangangasiwa ng pribadong sektor, inaasahang gaganda ang hitsura at serbisyo nito sa mga susunod na taon.

Quickly, will probably be able to accommodating 48 flights per hour, servicing our ever-increasing native and worldwide flight routes, and catering to greater than 62 million passengers yearly.

Greater than seventy airport and seaport improvement tasks throughout the nation have now been accomplished, and one other three hundred fifty ongoing tasks are set to be accomplished by the yr 2028. [applause]

Notably, the capacities of the Passenger Terminal Buildings of the Normal Santos Airport and the Bicol Worldwide Airport have been expanded by 300 and 5 hundred %, now catering to 2 thousand and one thousand 600 passengers, respectively. In the meantime, the Batangas Port PTB, our standard marine gateway to MIMAROPA, the Visayas, and to Mindanao, can now accommodate eight thousand vacationers at any given time.

Thanks to Congress, the Public-Personal Partnership, as an important funding mechanism for big-ticket tasks, is now institutionalized by the drive of regulation. [applause] PPP is seen to facilitate strategic investments and the well timed improvement of tasks below our Construct Higher Extra program, particularly since round one-fourth of our flagship tasks have been envisioned to be funded by way of this modality.

As an ideal instance, the NAIA PPP will go down in our historical past not solely as among the many largest and quickest accepted PPP, however one which has set the bar when it comes to openness, transparency, and competitiveness of the course of.

Via this partnership, our foremost aerial gateway is now primed for a revitalization. As soon as thought-about as amongst the worst and most aggravating airports in the world, it’ll quickly be a world-class worldwide airport that we are able to all be pleased with. [applause]

However even earlier than that, the UP-PGH Most cancers Heart is the primary PPP to be accepted on this administration.

Along with the Philippine Most cancers Heart of the DOH, which broke floor final March, these two specialty hospitals will quickly be a part of our nation’s combat in opposition to most cancers. These Facilities shall be a godsend to the greater than 4 hundred thousand Filipinos who’re stricken with this lethal illness.Habang ang mga modernong ospital na ito ay ginagawa pa, patuloy tayo sa pagdadagdag at pagpapataas ng kalidad ng ating mga ospital at mga specialty facilities.

Binuksan na natin sa publiko ang mahigit dalawampung Bagong Pressing Care and Ambulatory Service, o mga “BUCAS” Facilities, sa iba’t ibang lugar sa bansa. [applause]

Meant to decongest public hospitals, these Facilities shall present competent ambulatory care, most particularly to the poor and to the deprived, for well being circumstances that don’t require hospital admission.

Katuwang din natin ang lokal na pamahalaan sa mga tinatayo nating mga tawag na “Tremendous Well being Facilities”. Sa tulong ng mga LGUs, malalagyan natin ng sapat na mga doktor at nars ang mga ito, at madadagdagan pa natin sa mga susunod na taon. [applause]

Layunin natin na sa lalong madaling panahon, lahat ng lalawigan natin ay could sapat na mga middle o pasilidad na could kakayahang makapagbigay ng pangunahing serbisyong-medikal para sa ating mga mamamayan.

Samantala, titiyakin natin na ang bawat isang probinsya ay mabibigyan ng Cell Clinic, upang ang laboratory examination at ilan pang pangunahing serbisyong-medikal ay mapapalapit natin sa ating mga kababayan. [applause]

Sa PhilHealth naman, dinamihan na ang klase ng generic na gamot na kasama sa benepisyo para sa mga outpatient. [applause] Mula sa dalawampu’t isang generic na gamot, ay limampu’t tatlo na. Could mga bagong gamot para sa altapresyon, at mayroon na rin para sa nerve ache at sa epileptic seizures. [applause]

Bilang tugon sa dumaraming insidente at tumataas na presyo ng pagpapagamot, itinaas na ng Philhealth nang mahigit doble ang mga benepisyo para sa mga malulubhang karamdaman, tulad ng acute stroke at pulmonya. Ang restrict na ngayon para sa mga kundisyon na ito ay itinaas na hanggang pitumpu’t anim na libong piso at siyamnapung libong piso. [applause]

Upang mapaigting pa ang paglaban natin sa most cancers, tinaasan ng PhilHealth nang mahigit isanlibong porsyento ang benepisyo para sa pagpapagamot ng breast most cancers. [applause] Ang courting restrict na isandaang libong piso, ngayon ay ginawa na nating 1.4 million pesos. [applause]

Ang benepisyo naman para sa colon most cancers ay pinag-ibayo na rin. At bago matapos ang taon, maisasama na rin sa mga benepisyo ng PhilHealth ang chemotherapy para sa most cancers sa baga, atay, ovary, at prostate. [applause]

Naglaan po tayo ng mas mataas na pondo para sa ating medical help program, kaya higit na mas marami pang mga Pilipino ang matutulungan nito ngayong taon. [applause]

Except for our aggressive hiring efforts, we’ve enhanced medical and allied well being packages, allotted seed funds for public medical colleges, and launched scholarships, and evaluation and upskilling packages. These are to help the medical and nursing professions, with the aim to strengthen and improve our human assets for well being.

As a part of our recalibrated well being strategy in direction of prevention and wholesome habits, we’re prioritizing vaccinations, vitamin, psychological well-being, and energetic and wholesome existence.

Tuloy-tuloy ang ating paghahabol sa pagbabakuna ng mga sanggol at ng mga bata — lalo na sa Area 6 at sa BARMM, kung saan kulang pa sa kalahati ang nababakunahan.

At tuloy na tuloy din ang Philippine Plan of Motion for Vitamin, na ating binibigyang-tuon ngayong Hulyo, Buwan ng Nutrisyon.

Our convergent packages to stamp out starvation and malnutrition weren’t solely efficiently launched, however have yielded inspiring outcomes to this point.

One survey confirmed that our expanded College-Primarily based Feeding Program has had a big influence on the bodily and psychological well-being of greater than half of the learner-beneficiaries. Subsequently, we’ll proceed to additional improve these feeding packages in our colleges and day-care facilities. [applause]

The not too long ago launched “Walang Gutom 2027” will now be absolutely rolled out from the preliminary two thousand 300 households, now all of the approach to three hundred thousand food- poor households throughout the nation by the top of this yr. However the program will go on till we feed the one million most food-poor households by 2027. [applause]

An essential element of our methods to handle malnutrition shall be this system for the “First One Thousand Days,” or the primary two years of a kid’s life.

To guarantee the well being and vitamin of kids zero to two years previous from the poorest households, we’ve proposed in the 2025 Funds a brand new grant below the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program for this objective.

Sa pamamagitan nito, ang isang buntis o ang isang ina na benepisyaryo ng 4Ps ay mabibigyan ng karagdagang tulong-pinansyal na laan para sa kanya at sa kanyang anak.

Intently associated to those, the DOST has been constantly endeavor scientific analysis to develop nutritious meals and drinks, which will be built-in into the federal government’s feeding program.

Authorities is conscious of the urgent but delicate social problems with the day, such because the psychological well-being of our individuals.

The DOH has launched its complete psychological well being plan and ensured adequate provide of medicines. PhilHealth has additionally launched this yr its psychological well being profit package deal for all its members.

On the identical time, grassroots and sports-for-all packages are again within the mainstream, catering to Filipinos of all ages.

Nailunsad na namang muli ang taunang Palarong Pambansa, matapos ang tatlong taon na pagkakatigil nito dahil sa pandemiya. Binabati natin ang Marikina at Cebu, at ang Kagawaran ng Edukasyon sa kanilang matagumpay na pagtatanghal ng mga Palarong ito. [applause]

We’ll proceed to help these health-enhancing sports activities packages. Via these, we will even set forth our youth on the identical well-established path that has taken a few of our nationwide champions and famend athletes to sporting greatness. [applause]

As we converse, twenty-eight of our most interesting athletes are competing in Paris now for the glory of the Philippines. [applause and cheers]

Allow us to want them properly and the most effective of luck.

Sa larangan naman ng edukasyon, investing in our personal individuals isn’t solely a basic ethical crucial for us, however an financial one as properly.

In its report, the World Financial institution revealed that our promising financial development is essentially attributable to our individuals. The good bulk of the nation’s wealth is being created by the ability, the {industry}, and the resourcefulness of all Filipinos.

Ngunit sadyang marami pang ibubuga ang Pinoy.

We should harness the totality of the Filipino’s potential.

Thus, for consecutive years, we’ve prioritized a rise in finances for the inclusive improvement of Filipinos. Not simply in meals, vitamin and well being, however even moreso, in schooling and coaching.

Latest assessments have revealed the poor actuality that greater than half of our grades 6, 10, and 12 college students have failed to achieve the best proficiency ranges, faring low in data literacy, problem-solving and important considering abilities.

Subsequently, our nationwide studying restoration program should proceed with out the slightest disruption, particularly in fundamental schooling.

Our system of schooling have to be strategically calibrated to be sure that our youth aren’t solely taught to develop into literate. However, it should additionally consciously develop them into problem-solvers, and into essential thinkers — hungry for achievement, prepared for the long run.

Equally, as we relentlessly deal with the classroom hole, the digital hole should even be bridged with equal depth.

We’re working in direction of the day when all college students shall be geared up with computer systems, good TVs, important packages, digital books — and as soon as once more, entry to dependable energy and the Web.

Digitalization and solar-powered electrical energy should now develop into the usual options in our colleges and in our school rooms. Merely put, that is academic reform by way of expertise.

The perennial downside surrounding textbooks shall be resolved.

The manufacturing of tutorial supplies, particularly textbooks, that are up-to-date and error-free, have to be ensured. The entire course of, from approval of manuscript to procurement, all the way in which to distribution, shall be lower brief from its current three years to only one yr. [applause]

Ito ngayon ang magiging hamon sa ating bagong Kalihim: na tiyakin ang pagbangon at pagtaas ng kalidad ng edukasyon sa bansa, sa lalong madaling panahon. [applause]

Clearly, in fact the standard of our schooling rests on the standard of our academics.

Each classroom that we construct shall be however an empty and lifeless construction with out its shifting drive — the instructor.

However our academics aren’t simply perfunctory figures in our colleges; they’re the very basis of our instructional system.

And so, as we construct and improve colleges, so too should we uplift and upskill our academics, whose competence and trademark Filipino persistence, dedication, and compassion shall be on the core of our nationwide studying restoration.

Dinagdagan natin ang mga empleyado na hahalili sa mga guro upang magampanan ang mga sari-saring gawain sa paaralan. Sa gayon, ang ating mga guro ay makakatutok nang mabuti sa kanilang propesyon ng pagtuturo.

Katuwang ang Kongreso, naisabatas na ang “Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo” Act. Ito’y magbibigay sa mga guro sa pampublikong paaralan ng taunang instructing allowance para pambili ng mga kagamitan sa pagtuturo at mga kaugnay na gastusin. [applause] Matatanggap na nila ito simula sa susunod na taon.

Mayroon na rin silang Private Accident Insurance coverage mula sa GSIS. Makakapaghatid din ng dagdag na ginhawa ang Particular Hardship Allowance para sa mga karagdagang public faculty academics na masasaklaw nito, na nakakaranas ng matinding hirap at panganib sa kanilang araw-araw na pagtatrabaho.

At wala na ring “Utang-Tagging” sa mga academics. Hindi magiging hadlang ang kanilang pagkaka-utang upang makapag-renew ng kanilang mga lisensya. [applause] Bagkus, marapat lamang na sila ay payagan pa ring makapagturo, nang sila ay makapaghanapbuhay at mayroong kinikita.

Of equal significance, we’ve allotted funds to lastly implement the expanded profession development system for our public faculty academics. It will promote skilled improvement and profession development inside their ranks. This expanded system lays out two main profession paths for our academics to pursue: the instructing; and the varsity administration tracks, every of which shall have ample profession development alternatives.

With this method in place, we’ll speed up the profession development of academics. Sa sistemang ito, wala ng public faculty instructor ang magre-retire na Instructor I lamang. [applause]

Sa madaling sabi, kung talagang ninanais nating maging matagumpay ang hinahangad nating pagbangon sa larangan ng edukasyon, sila — ang ating mga guro — ang dapat nating itaguyod at patatagin.

Final yr, we reported that our system of upper schooling was gaining worldwide recognition for all the suitable causes. As additional proof, eighty-seven of our Larger Instructional Establishments (HEIs) have now made it into numerous world college rankings. Fifty-one of them are public universities or schools. [applause]

Additionally, we witnessed this previous faculty yr a big rise within the enrollment fee in increased schooling, each in public and in personal establishments. The identical upward pattern is likewise famous in technical-vocational schooling and coaching (TVET).

Statistics don’t lie. Eight out of ten graduates of TVET finally land first rate jobs. So with its excessive employability fee, TVET will certainly be instrumental in capacitating our individuals, and in sustaining our employment fee at constantly excessive ranges.

Cognizant of its potential, the DepEd, CHED, DOLE, and TESDA have joined forces now to include TVET within the Senior Excessive College curriculum to additional increase the employability of our college students. [applause]

The Filipinnovation and Malikhaing Pinoy packages have been launched, each drawing huge curiosity and provoking key sectors and the general public to generate options, to share concepts, and to drive innovation ahead throughout the nation.

The IT and inventive sectors are burgeoning industries, figuring out no territorial bounds, they usually maintain nice promise for our gifted and hardworking individuals.

That is the decision of our occasions, and we’re shifting to reply that decision.

The faculties will function the preeminent incubators of the revolutionary and inventive energies of all Filipinos.

Superior studying programs and applied sciences, within the areas of robotics, synthetic intelligence, and the Web of Issues, shall be made obtainable in TVET Innovation Facilities nationwide. Extremely technical and professional- stage coaching programs will quickly be launched, notably in cybersecurity and within the inventive industries.

Of our globally ranked HEIs, sixty-three have made it into the WURI World Prime 300 revolutionary universities. [applause]

Within the face of powerful world competitors, the Mabalacat Metropolis School in Pampanga was awarded the Technological or Digital Innovation of the 12 months. [applause] And for the second straight yr, Samar State College topped the rankings for its digitally pioneering R&D undertaking entries. [applause]

Related scholarships and R&D grants will proceed to be obtainable, aligned with our agenda to foster start-ups. To commercialize and mass produce R&D outputs, essential help, corresponding to mental property rights enforcement, and enterprise financing, have been put in place.

We’re additionally constructing important infrastructure and linkages to help the moral improvement of synthetic intelligence programs for high-impact sensible purposes.

For the reason that nation’s foray into house expertise, our satellites in house have generated greater than fifty-one thousand maps, photographs and space-borne information for numerous functions. These now present us with important data that information our nation’s stratagems and decision-making in agricultural improvement, city planning and environmental administration, together with the strengthening of our maritime area consciousness, to call however a couple of examples.

Together with these discoveries, we’re likewise in awe of our countrymen who’ve carved out their area of interest as pioneering house scientists and engineers on this emergent subject, in collaboration with native house expertise corporations that present a further impetus.

As we converse, sixteen of our house engineers are in the UK resuming work on the event of the Multi-Spectral Unit for Land Evaluation, or the MULA satellite tv for pc. As soon as accomplished, the MULA satellite tv for pc shall be our largest earth statement satellite tv for pc to be launched into house to date. [applause]

Could they encourage the following technology of Filipino college students to observe [in] their footsteps and attain for the celebrities.

Sa ating mga trabahador, our employment fee has elevated to 95.9%. [applause] We additionally noticed a big improve in high-quality jobs. Underemployment too has decreased from 11.7% in Could of 2023 to 9.9% at this time. [applause] That is our lowest quantity since 2005. [applause]

Notably, we additionally noticed a rise in middle-skilled employment, wage and salaried employment, and full- time jobs.

Magagandang balita pa rin ang mga ito, sa kabila ng nararanasang mataas na presyo ng pagkain.

Bukod sa paglikha ng trabaho, pinalalakas din natin ang kakayahan ng ating mga mamamayan, lalo na sa panahon ng kanilang kagipitan.

Our adaptive and responsive social safety packages help our countrymen in occasions of dire want, reaching these in geographically remoted and deprived areas. Extra importantly, these packages search to develop their productive potential and bridge their capacities in direction of self-sufficiency.

With the noble goal of breaking the cycle of poverty throughout the nation, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has not solely constantly achieved its annual targets. It has additionally confirmed its efficacy through the years. [applause]

Mula noong nakaraang SONA, mahigit apat na raan at dalawampung libong pamilya ang nag-graduate sa programa. [applause] Ibig sabihin, sa tulong ng 4Ps, mas gumanda na ang kanilang kalagayan at kakayahang makipagsapalaran sa laban ng buhay. [applause]

Sa katunayan, mahigit apat na libong graduates ng 4Ps ay nasa hanay na ngayon ng mga lisensyadong guro. [applause]

At hindi lamang iyon: tatlumpu’t lima sa mga topnotchers ng sari-saring mga board exams na idinaos nitong nakalipas na dalawang taon ay nagmula sa mga pamilya na benepisyaryo ng 4Ps. [applause]

Ilan sa kanila ay si Instructor Khane Jevie Cervantes ng Davao Oriental, na nakuha ng primary sa Licensure Examination for Skilled Lecturers. [applause and cheers] Isa rin si Engr. Alexis Alegado na nanguna sa Civil Engineering Board Exams noong Abril ng nakalipas na taon. [applause]

Tomorrow — the birthdate of Apolinario Mabini — we cap off the Nationwide Incapacity Rights Week. Our PWDs can relaxation assured of presidency’s efficient implementation of helpful insurance policies and packages that can assure equitable alternatives, particular interventions, and incentives for them.

Mula nang pumasok ang administrasyong ito, nagsimula na ang mga programang pangkabuhayan na nakalaan para sa ating mga PWDs. Sa susunod na taon, ilulunsad naman ng PhilHealth ang benepisyo nito para sa mga batang could kapansanan. [applause]

Halos dinoble na rin ang diskwento na ibinibigay sa mga PWDs, at sa mga senior citizen na tulad ninyo — para sa mga fundamental requirements at prime commodities. [applause and cheers] Natuwa kayong lahat doon.

Sa lahat ng mga ginagawa nating ito, katuwang natin palagi ang pribadong sektor, lalo na sa mahahalagang bagay ng trabaho at pasahod.

With tripartite consensus, minimal wage ranges have been elevated in numerous sectors in all areas, together with the BARMM, for staff in personal institutions. Makapagdudulot ito ng ginhawa sa mahigit apat na milyong mga kababayan natin at ng kanilang mga pamilya.

Para naman sa ating mga kawani ng gobyerno, mayroon silang maaasahang medical allowance bilang karagdagang benepisyo sa susunod na taon. [applause]

At hindi lamang iyon. Mayroon ding napipintong omento sa suweldo na makukuha nila sa apat na tranches. Naglaan na po tayo ng pondo para dito simula sa taong ito at sa mga susunod na taon. [applause]

Moreover, we’ve prolonged the providers of our job order and contract of service personnel working in authorities. This will even afford them ample alternative to work on their civil service eligibilities, whereas gaining further related expertise and coaching to improve their employment {qualifications}.

Our aggressive infrastructure improvement, business-friendly insurance policies, funding and export promotions, overseas visits, and financial missions, are all geared toward producing not simply jobs, however high quality and aggressive jobs.

A considerable variety of funding pledges have already commenced operations, with many extra at numerous phases of improvement. Sa bilang natin, bukod sa malalaking kita para sa bansa, makakalikha ang mga ito ng mahigit dalawang-daan at dalawang libong trabaho para sa ating mga kababayan. [applause]

The rationalized incentives scheme below the CREATE Act has additionally made attainable the technology of investments amounting to multiple trillion pesos, and greater than 100 thousand new jobs. This promising state of affairs is now beckoning us to create extra — by way of the passage of the CREATE MORE Act. [applause]

Acutely aware efforts to enhance the benefit of doing enterprise and of delivering authorities providers, by way of our digitalization, integration, and streamlining of processes, have produced their supposed multiplier results. Value financial savings from operations have translated to increased revenues and to extra speedy transactions.

These have successfully addressed the fragmented, overlapping, and time-consuming procedures which have hindered optimum productiveness by authorities.

Attributable to those transformative reforms, authorities providers have gotten extra environment friendly.

Increasingly programs are actually digital and cashless, assimilating people, MSMEs, even agricultural staff. These have expedited transactions and business exchanges and promoted the comfort of all events involved.

Ang Palen-QR ay isa sa mga programang unti-unting lumalakas ang hatak sa publiko at dumarami ang gumagamit.

Bolstering our Cybercrime Prevention Act, the not too long ago handed Anti-Monetary Accounts Scamming Act will additional shield the general public by heightening the accountability and safety programs of banks and monetary establishments, and imposing excessive legal liabilities on social engineering schemes and cash mules.

Job placement additionally has seen vital progress, particularly by way of our Public Employment Service Workplaces (PESOs) nationwide. PESOs have harnessed IT capabilities and improved labor-industry coordination. Collectively, they boast a job placement success fee of ninety-eight %. [applause]

Likewise, as a consequence of shortened timelines, we’ve recorded a big improve in new enterprise and company registrations, together with overseas corporations, which surpassed final yr’s numbers.

The noticed chokepoints in our meals provide chains and within the logistics sector are actually being eliminated. And, on the identical time, the recognized gaps are being crammed in, to make them environment friendly, interconnected, and seamless, saving valuable time and price.

The approval of vitality tasks is shifting in direction of full digital integration of its required procedures. The expedited processing of our infrastructure flagship tasks below the Construct Higher Extra program shall additionally observe go well with.

Our digital infrastructure was considerably strengthened courtesy of frequent towers that greater than tripled in quantity since final yr, owing to streamlining of allowing necessities.

Air transport and tourism have been made extra handy, due to the shift to paperless immigration and customs types, due to the E-Journey system. And shortly, the piloted E-Gates shall be normal fixtures at airports, to additional facilitate ease of mobility throughout departures and arrivals.

And with all these stated, the implementation of the Philippine E-Visa shall be subsequent in our digital transformation agenda. [applause]

Allow us to now go to tourism, as a result of we, within the Philippines, have a minimum of seven thousand 600 forty-one lovely causes to faucet the potential of our tourism sector, for which our archipelagic nation is internationally famend and from which many Filipinos derive their livelihood.

Whereas a resurgence on this all-important sector is being noticed, pre-pandemic information current to us an awesome problem that we should surpass.

It’s a problem that’s properly inside our grasp.

Our infrastructure and digital reforms, by way of improvement of tourism websites and the enhancement of the general vacationer expertise, are all calculated to spice up the productiveness of the tourism sector. Whereas doing so, we will interpose the healthful and hospitable Filipino model in all the important thing tourism touchpoints — from vacationer arrival all the way in which to departure.

However the tourism problem has already advanced, and now requires a multi-faceted technique. The main focus now’s on “experiential tourism”.

Meals, tradition, heritage, the humanities, schooling, halal, Islamic traditions, dive, cruise, farm and eco-tourism, even sports activities, have now develop into potent topics and merchandise of a nation’s tourism.

That is an crucial and that we should elevate and broaden our understanding of the “one city, one product”, or OTOP, idea. It should not inhibit, however somewhat, it should encourage. We should not relaxation content material to have simply “one”. Quite, we should search the “optimum” variety of high-quality services and products, which on the identical time showcase our neighborhood’s distinctive historical past, traditions, and abilities.

Filipino creativity and ingenuity will enliven and unlock the as but untapped potential of those new sides of Philippine tourism.

Sa ating mga OFWs, ayon sa datos ng Bangko Sentral, mahigit tatlumpu’t pitong bilyong dolyar ang naipasok sa bansa ng ating mga OFWs noong nakalipas na taon. [applause and cheers] Sadyang napakalaking tulong nito sa ating bumabangon na ekonomiya.

Kaya hindi lamang pasasalamat, kundi parangal ang ating ipinapaabot sa lahat ng ating mga OFWs. [applause] Sana ay napapanood nila ito. Ramdam na ramdam hanggang dito sa ating bansa ang inyong sakripisyo.

Via important partnerships with like-minded states, we’ve been in a position to promote our mutual pursuits, ensuing not solely in investments right here and our strengthened nationwide safety, but additionally in high quality jobs for our nationals looking for overseas employment.

Via intense Philippine lobbying, the United Nations has adopted the decision on “Selling and Defending the Enjoyment of Human Rights of Seafarers.” It will guarantee their protected and first rate residing and dealing circumstances at sea — a human rights crucial. [applause]

Patuloy ang ating pagtulong sa mga OFWs. Hindi ito natatapos sa kanilang paglisan sa bansa.

Karagdagang mga ispesyal na pasilidad at serbisyo ang ating binuksan para sa kanila, tulad ng OFW Lounge sa NAIA at Seafarer’s Hub sa Maynila.

Ang mga OFWs natin na naapektuhan ng sari-saring mga kaguluhan — tulad sa Israel, sa Gaza, sa Sudan, Lebanon, at Yemen — ay natulungan natin at naiuwi nang ligtas sa bansa. [applause]

Gayundin ang naging pagtulong natin sa mga kababayan nating nasalanta ng kalamidad at krisis, tulad sa Taiwan at sa New Zealand.

Hanggang sa kanilang pag-uwi, buong-puso ang ating pagtanggap at paglingap. Ang nagbabalik-bayang mga OFWs, kasama ng kanilang pamilya, ay sinusuportahan nating mabuti upang maging maayos ang kanilang bagong simula dito sa bansa — para makakuha ng magandang trabaho o di kaya’y makapagtayo ng negosyo.

Kaugnay sa aking naiulat noong isang taon, sinimulan na ng Saudi Arabia ang pamimigay ng cheke sa ating mga trabahanteng nawalan ng trabaho doon. [applause] Unti-unti, ang ating mga naapektuhang OFWs ay nababayaran na.

For this, we convey our sincerest gratitude to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [applause]

Classes from historical past and present occasions train us that peace and order is a vital ingredient of real prosperity and social improvement.

That is the trail that we select to take. Regardless of difficulties, regardless of our variety and variations as a individuals, we’re joined collectively by a novel historical past, and have consistently invested our energies and assets in strengthening the pillars of peace.

Our police, army, and coast guard endure steady capacity-building and asset-upgrading, in order that they’re higher in a position to protect the peace and defend our territory.

We have now famous an total lower in crime fee and an enchancment in crime answer effectivity. [applause] However this isn’t sufficient. Our regulation enforcers have to proceed to earn the belief of our individuals.

The robust pillars of our legal justice system, particularly in mild of the brand new guidelines on legal investigation, and our unbiased Judiciary, operate in unison.

In tandem with the justice system, COA’s audit mechanism works in concord with our transparency, streamlining, and open authorities initiatives. All in all, these efficiently foster a tradition of accountability that curbs corruption in authorities.

With the newly enacted Republic Act No. 12009 that I signed simply final Saturday, authorities procurement shall be trendy and revolutionary, extra streamlined and environment friendly, and actually at par with world finest practices. [applause]

We sincerely thank Congress for its well timed and decisive motion in amending the twenty-year previous regulation.

We have now come a great distance in our quest for an enduring and inclusive peace.

No guerilla fronts stay energetic throughout our nation at this time. Solely seven weakened teams stay to be dismantled, and they’re the topic of targeted operations. However together with the assertion of presidency may, we additionally provide peace, neighborhood improvement, and reintegration packages for individuals who have returned to the fold of the regulation.

Via a complete and transformative strategy, we’ve rebuilt not solely lives, but additionally conflict-affected communities.

The implementation of peace agreements is now in its concluding part. Former combatants now reside peaceable and productive lives of their respective communities. A few of our former rebels are actually absorbed into the AFP, serving within the protection of the Republic; whereas others are actually a part of the PNP BARMM.

Authorities will honor and absolutely adjust to its remaining deliverables and commitments below these agreements. [applause]

In November final yr, we signed proclamations granting amnesty to former rebels. A month later, after which in June of this yr, the Home of Representatives and the Senate issued their respective resolutions concurring with these amnesty proclamations. [applause]

That Congress is one with us, is a testomony to the entire nation’s honest want for peace.

In such a brief interval, the BARMM has impressively established the robust basis for its progressive autonomous social improvement.

Investments proceed to pour into the BARMM. Final yr, investments within the area elevated by 100 forty % year-on-year.

The improved peace and order state of affairs, good governance — to not point out excessive hopes and confidence amongst its individuals — all contribute to the explanation why BARMM’s poverty index has considerably decreased since 2018. [applause]

In Marawi, the rehabilitation and rebuilding proceed — below the supervision now of the Workplace of the President. [applause] Our focus stays on restoring vitality, water, and livable communities.

As of at this time, all seven inter-governmental mechanisms of the BARMM, as mandated below the Natural Regulation, have been organized and activated. These will assure efficient and fixed session between the Bangsamoro and the Nationwide Governments within the basic facets of governance.

5 out of the seven important legal guidelines for the BARMM have already been enacted by the BTA Parliament. [applause] Now, it has its personal Administrative Code, it has its personal Native Authorities Code, its personal Election Code, and people for Schooling and the Civil Service as properly.

So with these inspiring developments, the BARMM seems primed and prepared for its common elections, the primary ones that they’ll have within the coming yr. [applause]

On the combat in opposition to harmful medication, our cold warfare on harmful medication adheres, and can proceed to stick, to the established “8 Es” of an efficient anti-illegal medication technique. Extermination was by no means certainly one of them. [applause and cheers]

And but, in additional than seventy-one thousand 5 hundred operations, it has resulted within the seizure of greater than forty-four billion pesos value of unlawful medication, and the arrest of greater than ninety-seven thousand drug personalities.

Greater than six thousand of these arrested had been high-value targets. 4 hundred forty of them had been authorities staff, of whom forty-two had been uniformed personnel. Seventy-seven had been elected officers. [applause]

So to additional paralyze their operations, soiled cash and property value greater than 5 hundred million pesos have been frozen and preserved. With robust case build-up and environment friendly prosecution, the drug conviction fee is at a excessive of seventy-nine %. [applause]

Along with this, we welcome the report that the variety of drug-affected barangays in our nation has been diminished by thirty-two %. [applause]

In our worldwide relations, we’ve confronted challenges to our territorial sovereignty, and we’ll assert our rights and pursuits in the identical honest and pacific method that we’ve all the time finished. [applause] Correct diplomatic channels and mechanisms below the rules-based worldwide order stay the one acceptable technique of settling disputes.

Peace and community-building will all the time be our clarion name, particularly when the nation serves as chair and the host of the ASEAN Summit in 2026.

We constantly attempt to discover methods to de-escalate tensions in contested areas with our counterparts, with out compromising our place and our rules. I do know that our neighbors too are doing their finest to make this work.

The Philippines can’t yield. The Philippines can’t waver. [applause and cheers]

We are actually extra aware as a individuals, and strategic in heightening our aerial and maritime area consciousness. We’re persevering with to strengthen our defensive posture, each by way of growing self-reliance and thru partnerships with like-minded states.

Ang West Philippine Sea ay hindi kathang-isip natin lamang. Ito ay atin. [applause and cheers] At ito ay mananatiling atin hangga’t nag-aalab ang diwa ng ating minamahal na bansang Pilipinas. [applause and cheers]

Pagtitibayin at palalaguin natin ang kamalayan at kaalaman ng buong bansa, at titiyakin na maipapasa natin ito sa kabataan at ating susunod na mga salinlahi.

Legal guidelines on our Maritime Zones and Archipelagic Sea Lanes will be sure that this intergenerational mandate — this responsibility — will firmly take root within the hearts and minds of all our individuals.

Sa buong Sandatahang Lakas, sa Coast Guard, at sa ating mga mangingisda sa West Philippine Sea: Tanggapin po ninyo ang taos-pusong pasasalamat ng buong bansa dahil sa inyong ginagawang pagmamatyag at sakripisyo. [applause and cheers]

Allow us to now flip to our financial standing and our prospects, regardless of the headwinds that we’ve confronted, we’ve stayed the course.

The nation displays wholesome indicators of post-pandemic resilience similar to robust economies in our area.

Our poverty fee has considerably dropped to fifteen.5%, down from 18% in 2021. [applause] This current determine is even decrease than the pre-pandemic stage of 16.7% in 2018. [applause]

Ang katumbas nito ay halos dalawa’t kalahating milyong Pilipino ang naiangat natin mula sa kahirapan. [applause]

Kasabay nito, nabawasan nang lagpas isang milyon at pitong daang libo ang bilang ng mga Pilipinong walang sapat na pambili ng pagkain. Patuloy nating pagsisikapan na marami pa tayong maiaahon mula sa kahirapan. [applause]

To maintain the nation’s financial positive aspects, we’re selling investment-led development. We have now set in movement insurance policies and packages to create an surroundings conducive for companies to thrive, like reforms within the capital markets, and implementation of “inexperienced lanes”.

In consequence, we’ve “green-lane licensed” round 100 tasks with a complete funding of about three trillion pesos throughout the sectors of renewable vitality, digital infrastructure, meals safety, and manufacturing. [applause]

The Philippine monetary system stays strong and resilient. Tax and non-tax income assortment has additionally develop into extra environment friendly, in tempo with our rejuvenated economic system. Notably, for the previous two years, our GOCCs have remitted dividends to the Nationwide Authorities with a mixed tally exceeding their contributions in 2022. [applause]

To construct on these, and guided by robust fiscal self-discipline, our proposed authorities finances for this yr was crafted with utmost care, diligence, and meticulous consideration.

We glance to the cooperation of our colleagues within the Legislature, not solely that our proposed Nationwide Funds be accepted in your traditional well timed method, but it surely be adhered to as carefully as attainable. [applause]

We count on all companies to make sure that each centavo allotted shall be judiciously spent for our pressing priorities and socially impactful packages.

Mga kababayan: sa lahat ng ginagawa nating ito at mga gagawin pa, mataas ang aking kumpiyansa na malalampasan din natin ang hamon na ating pinagdadaanan. Dahil ito ang pangunahing hinaing ng taumbayan, hindi tayo titigil sa paglalaban sa kahirapan, at sa paghahanap ng lunas upang maibalik sa regular ang presyo ng bilihin — lalo na ang bigas.

At ngayon po, naririnig po namin ang malakas na sigaw ng taumbayan laban sa mga POGO.

Disguising as reliable entities, their operations have ventured into illicit areas furthest from gaming corresponding to monetary scamming, cash laundering, prostitution, human trafficking, kidnapping, brutal torture, even homicide.

The grave abuse and disrespect to our system of legal guidelines should cease.

Kailangan nang itigil ang panggulo nito sa ating lipunan at paglalapastangan sa ating bansa. [cheers and applause]

Efficient at this time, all POGOs are banned. [cheers and applause]

[Crowd: BBM! BBM! BBM!]

I hereby instruct PAGCOR to wind down and stop the operations of POGOs by the top of the yr. [cheers and applause]

The DOLE, in coordination with our financial managers, shall use the time between at times to seek out new jobs for our countrymen who shall be displaced. [applause]

It will clear up most of the issues that we’re encountering. It is going to clear up most of the issues that we’ve been encountering, but it surely won’t clear up all of them.

To unravel all the issues that we’ve been struggling below, all officers, regulation enforcers, staff in authorities, and most of all of the citizenry, should all the time be vigilant, principled and consider the well being of the nation.

So, girls and gents, let me finish by recalling the phrases of an awesome man: Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no hurt if he takes no half, and types no opinion. Unhealthy males want nothing extra to compass their ends, than that good males ought to look on and do nothing. [cheers and applause] He isn’t a very good man who, with no protest, permits unsuitable to be dedicated in his title. [cheers and applause]

Mga minamahal kong kababayan, lagi po nating labanan ang mali at ang masama. Lagi po natin ipaglaban ang tama at ang mabuti. [applause]

Lagi po nating mahalin ang Pilipinas. Lagi po nating mahalin ang Pilipino. [applause]

Mabuhay po kayo at mabuhay ang Bagong Pilipinas! [applause]

Maraming, maraming salamat po. [cheers and applause]

[Crowd: BBM! BBM! BBM! ]

—FULL TEXT PROVIDED BY THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

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