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I want to congratulate the set of newly elected officials who will guide our nation for the next three to six years.


Challenges and opportunities await those who received fresh mandate from the electorate to serve the government and our people. I am confident that they are up to the task of serving the interest of the majority of our population, which, at 110 million, is now one of the largest in the world.

The votes that have been reflected in the COMELEC Transparency Servers and reported in real time by various media outfits and citizen watchdogs seem to show one thing—a landslide victory for the tandem of former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos and Mayor Sara Duterte. Their victory was decisive. I congratulate the presumptive President and Vice President on a disciplined and well-run campaign and wish them well as they begin the difficult task of healing a divided nation and, more critically, directing the country’s economic recovery.

The robust 8.3 percent economic growth in the first quarter of 2022 is giving presumptive President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a solid head start. He is not inheriting a weak economy. Rather, he is receiving a strong one—in fact the fastest-growing economy in East Asia—from outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte.