He could only do so much (3)
Who was the President who Initiated, signed into law, and implemented the free college education and the alternative learning system in State universities and colleges?
Who signed, initiated, and signed into law the automatic enrolment of all Filipinos in the government’s insurance program and ordered the full implementation of the reproductive health law?
Who was the President who conceived of the idea of Malasakit Center when he was still a city mayor, the establishment of which was authored in the Senate by Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go and signed into law by the same President?
Who was the President who ordered the takeover of Mile Long property in Makati run by a private firm owned and controlled by the Prieto and Rufino families, which did not pay the monthly rent to the government for 14 years, and as a consequence of such takeover, the government earned an initial 6.7 million pesos monthly in rental from shop lessees starting 2017, and more millions from about 309 available spaces and parking areas?
Who was the President who doubled the salaries of the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police?
Who was the President who began the Comprehensive Tax Reform, which accelerated poverty reduction and addressed inequality by making the tax system simpler and fairer, and provided the government with efficient, additional, and more revenues for the government? Who was the President who successfully ended the decades-long peace negotiations between rebel groups in Mindanao by signing into law the Bangsamoro Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao?
Who was the President who initiated significant legislation and signed into law the Bureau of Fire Protection Modernization Law, Anti-Terrorism Law, Sin Tax Law, Amnesty Law, the 105-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Law and Mental Health Law?
Who was the President who pushed for the programs like the One-Stop Service Center for OFWs, Overseas Filipino Bank and OFW Hospital, OFW e-Card, government workers’ pay, and the “Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa” program?
Who was the President who accomplished and implemented the 10-year passport and 10-year driver’s license validity?
Who was the President who ordered the completion of 212 airport projects and 102 more which included Clark, Catarman, Butuan, Busuanga, Zamboanga, Siquijor, General Santos and Bicol?
Who was the President who ordered the completion of 446 seaport projects and 117 more?
Who was the President who ordered the building of new railways and the upgrading of existing rail lines?
Who was the President who inaugurated the LRT-2 East Extension, the massive rehabilitation of MRT-3, and the Common Station?
Who was the President who decongested EDSA by establishing EDSA Busway and building bike lanes to promote active transport?
Who was the President
“The probinsyano FPRRD is a class by himself, a sui generis.
who because of his economic policies earned and maintained high credit ratings despite the onslaught of the pandemic that brought the country and the rest of the world to their knees? Who was the President who managed to implement the Biosurveillance Program, and who established Covid-19 RT-PCR laboratories in almost 70 percent of all provinces in the country and increased the testing capacity from an average of 30,000 tests to 40,000 each day in 2020 to an average of 75,000 to 80,000 tests every day in 2021?
Who was the President whose administration provided P635,810 worth of Covid-19 sickness services consistent with the Universal Health Law that he signed in 2019?
Who was the President whose administration was able to administer more than 160 million vaccines and boosters to millions of Filipinos?
Who was the President who poured six trillion pesos during his term more than any other president, built 2,200 school buildings, more than 150,000 classrooms, more than 5,700 bridges, and more than 27,000 kilometers of roads, access roads, expressways, skyways and tollways?
Who was the President who reduced bureaucratic red tape and forced the business tycoons to follow the law?
The answer to those questions, who was the President who incredibly performed those aforementioned unprecedented accomplishments, which enumeration is incomplete, whose legacies will be imprinted in the minds and hearts of the overwhelming majority of the Filipino people, is no other but — the one and only, former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
To reiterate, this probinsyano of a man, as he describes his person, is a class by himself, a sui generis.
“It is former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte who incredibly performed unprecedented accomplishments, with legacies imprinted in the minds and hearts of the overwhelming majority of the Filipino people.