President needs to do more – analystshome/News/Top Stories/President needs to do more – analystsHalfway through his term, President Rodrigo Duterte is “doing a fair job,” but still has a lot of work to do to improve the lives of Filipinos, political analysts said. For the drug war to be successful, Valdes said the President should go after the big fish. In April, the President ordered a review of all government contracts to weed out onerous provisions detrimental to public interest. We now have the Free Tuition Law, Free Irrigation Law and Universal Healthcare Act, all of which will improve the lives of the people, particularly the poor. To address corruption, the President established the Anti-Red Tape Authority, an agency created by the Ease of Doing Business Act, Villanueva said.

Source: Manila Times July 21, 2019 16:09 UTC