More than halfway into his six-year term, President Rodrigo Duterte has neither made new promises nor followed through on previous ones related to the media since his 2016 state of the nation address. Yet there was no let-up in his clashes with, and tirades against the media.
Less than two years before President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term ends in 2022, two of his promises on his peace agenda have been delivered: the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, repealing the Human Security Act of 2007 (HSA).
President Rodrigo Duterte barely mentioned the continuing modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in his fourth state of the nation address in 2019 and even undermined its capability to defend the Philippines from China’s intrusions. (See SONA 2019 Promise Tracker: Foreign Relations)
The rising tensions with China in the West Philippine Sea hogged President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth state of the nation address in 2019, where he promised two things that remain hanging to this day:
Expressing disappointment over his failure to deliver on a campaign promise to end the drug menace, President Rodrigo Duterte repeated in his 2019 SONA his request to Congress to pass a bill restoring the death penalty on drug-related crimes and plunder.
Habang nagpapatong-patung ang mga petisyon laban sa bagong Anti-Terror Law, nagsalawahan si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte mula sa pagsabing ang mga komunista ang "numero unong banta" sa bansa hanggang sa sila ang "pinakamaliit" na alalahanin niya.
As petitions contesting the newly enacted Anti-Terror Law pile up, President Rodrigo Duterte went from tagging communists as the country’s “number one threat” to saying they are the “least” of its worries.
All images were shot under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte, who took office in June 2016.
President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims on the government’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the world’s history of past pandemics.
Dalawang maling pahayag ang pinakawalan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kaugnay ng pagtugon ng gobyerno sa coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at kasaysayan ng mga nakaraang pandemic sa buong mundo.