Protesters, police clash ahead of Aquino’s state of the union address

Among different considerations he raised was the more and more tense dispute with China over contested South China Sea territories.

Aquino, whose six-year term ends next June, is expected to report on the progress of his fight against corruption and poverty, the centrepiece of his campaign that landed him a landslide victory.

“If the transformation is not cut short, this will just be the beginning”.

Protesters set a giant effigy of Philippine President Benigno… He referred to as on Filipinos to unite as their nation confronts China, which he didn’t determine by identify.

Aquino addressed parliament for the last time on July 27, racing to secure fragile legacies of peace in the war-torn south and a stronger economy and his political clout fading and struggling to choose a successor for next year’s elections that would continue with his agendas, analysts said. “But on the basis of reason and love for country, we’re not lagging behind”.

The measure has languished in parliament due to outrage over the deaths of 44 police commandos in an encounter with rebels, including from the main Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), in January.

In a surprise turnaround, Aquino said he now backs long-unsuccessful attempts to craft a law that would restrict the number of members of influential families who can run for public office. Anti-dynasty payments, nevertheless, haven’t had any luck in Congress, which is dominated by millionaires who’ve carried the family names of dominant political clans to public workplace for generations.

Aquino belongs to a wealthy landowning clan. His late mother, Corazon Aquino, was catapulted to the presidency after helping lead the 1986 “people power” revolt that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

This was higher than the 43.9 percent or 12,550 of the total votes from readers who said that Poe should still run for president even without Aquino’s blessing.

But problems have persisted in the south-east Asian country, where one-in-four people live in poverty. Communist insurgencies that have raged off and on for greater than some decades have along with natural mishaps in the storm- vulnerable archipelago and rules and obtain issues to turn governance into a complicated and hard dilemma.