President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is still working on his message for his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) which will take place a few days from now.
Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez told reporters on Friday, July 22, that it is still premature to say how long the President's speech would be as Marcos is still in the process of writing the speech which will be delivered to the public on Monday, July 25.
"It’s a work in progress. It’s a moving thing. I think it’s too premature to say right now," Rodriguez said.
The executive secretary said Marcos is the one writing his SONA message and has devoted the entire weekend until Monday morning to finalize his speech.
"He’s the one writing his SONA message and he will be very busy. Yesterday we tried to relax his schedule so he can write but ang dami pa ring mga trabaho (but there is still a lot of work to do)," he said.
"This afternoon, he has devoted it until the weekend, until morning of Monday, to finalize his SONA message," he added.
Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez said it's still premature to say how long President Marcos' SONA message would be as the President will work on his speech over the weekend until Monday morning. Marcos will deliver his first SONA on Monday, July 25. @manilabulletin pic.twitter.com/2NrSNcS43i
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According to Rodriguez, the President's message would focus on matters that have been taken up during his three Cabinet meetings, saying it would heavily focus on the administration's economic plans.
"It’s all about our economy, the economic plans, the face-to-face opening of this coming school year. It’s all about Covid response and when we say Covid response, it goes all the way to the entire cycle of economy, not just health. You go into economy, you go into education, and so on," Rodriguez said.
He also disclosed that the President would lay out his intention to step up digitization efforts under his administration.
"Very much related is, of course, yung (is the) digitalization. Not just with respect to the education of the students, but also with the way things are being run in terms of governance. He wants to see a digitalized governance and digitalized PBBM administration," Rodriguez said.
Marcos' public address will also highlight his administration's plan on the impending food price and supply crisis.