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A Letter to the President.

 Letter to the President

Dear President,

My name is Dhan Michael Palos a student and a proud Filipino citizen.

I made this letter to tell you that you are a great leader to your people and country and to show you some of your biggest accomplishments.

Here are the biggest accomplishments our President made:

1. Tax reform, under Finance Secretary Sonny Dominguez, which made the Philippines one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia.

2. Build, Build, Build, under Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar who raised infra spending to an average of 5.14 percent of GDP, from Fidel Ramos 1.7 percent; Joseph Estrada 1.62 percent; Gloria Arroyo 1.5 percent; and Benigno Aquino III 2.7 percent.

Duterte poured more money into infrastructure - over P6 trillion in six years - than any president before him, In the last five years alone, the DPWH under Villar built 145,000 classrooms, 2,000 school buildings, 5,555 bridges, and 26,500 kms. of roads, access roads, expressways, and tollways.

3. Transportation modernization under Department of Transportation Secretary Art Tugade who made mass transportation safe, reliable, and available.  

Tugade increased RoRo shipping routes from 120 (servicing 223 ships and 2.8 million vehicles) in 2016 to 181 by 2020. He targets additional 41 to service 325 ships and 4.8 million vehicles.  

Art completed more than 200 airport projects, 400 seaports, and 21 new lighthouses to reach 564 lighthouses. New airport terminals were built for Mactan, Clark, Ormoc, and Kalibo. Bicol Airport was restarted after an 11-year delay.  

Night-rated airports increased from 14 in 2016 to 20 by June 2021.  

NAIA improved from being one of the worst airports in the world to being the most improved by 2018. The ammunition racket, where NAIA passengers were suddenly found to have bullets in their luggage (an excuse for huge extortion) stopped completely.

Art has started building the impossible-a subway on EDSA.  

4. Free college education for all with 1.6 million enjoying it by 2020, up 36 percent from 2019.

According to Duterte, “we expanded the access of Filipinos to quality and equitable tertiary education through RA no. 10931 or the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, which I signed on August 3, 2017.”

This law provides various financial assistance and scholarships to student beneficiaries in state universities and colleges and local universities and colleges (SUCs and LUCs). This law, among others, institutionalized the Free Higher Education (FHE), Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES), Student Loan Program, and Free Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

5. An independent foreign policy

Manila pivoted to Beijing without losing Washington's friendship and support. The US was forced to return the Balangiga bells of Samar which were seized by the US Army as war trophy after the locals wiped out an entire infantry regiment of 48 men and wounded 78 other American soldiers. The Philippines had demanded the return of the bells which were used to signal the Filipino rebels to attack the US GIs.

6. Duterte reduced red tape for the masses and made oligarchs toe the line.

Of course, under Duterte, crime went down but extrajudicial killings became rampant. Now, the President faces the grim prospect of being tried before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity. Our Supreme Court has told Duterte to cooperate with the ICC.

7. Universal health care. Insurance coverage expanded from 90 percent of the population to 100 percent.

COVID-19 proved too complex to contain, despite 9,000 new treatment facilities with 140,000-bed capacity and 36 million in vaccine arrivals. A Philippine Center for Disease Control is planned and a Virology Institute is under construction.

These are the biggest accomplishments that our President made, there are more accomplishments but these are the biggest of all.

 

 

Refference: https://manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/virtual-reality-by-tony-lopez/361011/duterte-s-seven-biggest-achievements.html

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