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The term of President Rodrigo Duterte will end at noon on June 30, 2022. By then he would have completed his six-year term which he won handily during the May 2016 national elections. The 16th President of the Republic will soon graduate to become what he always wanted—an ordinary citizen with none of the trappings of power that surround the highest position of the land.

In the not-so-distant future, motor vehicles running on Edsa and other thoroughfares will be fueled by biomass, hydro dams, geothermal energy, and wind and solar power. Electric-powered vehicles and public transportation, and renewable energy sources are the new normal and the wave of the future.

I am glad that most of the candidates for president have expressed their willingness to continue, in one form or another, “Build, Build, Build,” which is the flagship program of President Rodrigo Duterte. There was some worry that because of the acrimony in Philippine politics and the prospects of discontinuity as a new administration takes over the infrastructure program will be terminated. In several of the debates and interviews, many of the frontrunners in the presidential race have expressed their intention to pursue infrastructure development if they win in the May 2022 elections.