A "yeoman", or a hard worker.
That's how House Speaker Martin Romualdez described President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s performance at the World Economic Forum (WEF), saying that the latter has been doing "a yeoman’s job" in driving more investments toward the Philippines.
Romualdez, who is part of the President’s official delegation to the WEF in Davos, Switzerland, noted that the Chief Executive has been hard at work, seizing all the opportunities to share the Philippine success story to the world leaders and business elite who are at the forum.
“No less than Borge Brende, the president of the WEF, recognized the sustained effort President Marcos displayed in this forum to showcase the Philippines’ remarkable story and outline the path his administration is taking to welcome more foreign investments into our country,” noted Romualdez, who is arguably Marcos's top ally in the Philippine legislature.
The Speaker, who represents Leyte's 1st district in the House of Representatives, was referring to Brende’s comments in his one-on-one dialogue with Marcos. The dialogue was among the key events in the WEF.
“Mr. President Marcos, it’s great to have you here. I know you worked extremely hard today. I think I have seen you already three or four times and I know we have had so many sessions,” Brende said at the outset of their conversation.
Romualdez noted that like other attendees to the WEF, Brende was impressed with the performance of the Philippine economy despite the slowdown in many parts of the world.
“But even more importantly, the President was able to clearly convey his strategy for sustained growth and the peculiar advantages of the Philippines that would engender investor confidence in the realization of such objective,” the Speaker said.