“The Presidency”

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Governance, ancestral domain, constitutional reform, to name a few — Abaya ZAMBOANGA CITY — The incoming Aquino administration will face tough issues as it pursues peace talks with Muslim separatist and communist rebel groups, outgoing presidential peace adviser Annabelle T. Abaya said, as the process centers on contentious issues.

A TV campaign ad of the presidential candidate shows him leading a flock of people – actually mostly showbiz personalities – all bearing torches as they march up a hill. The scene is reminiscent of the biblical prophet Moses who parted the Red Sea with his cane allowing the Hebrew people to cross away from…

DAVAO CITY — Mindanao’s situation appears to be improving with recent developments providing respite to alarming issues that have emerged in recent months. Foremost of these are security and power supply deficiency.

PRELIMINARY development plans for the next administration are already being crafted, officials said, with the focus still on economic growth and poverty reduction.

MANILA, Philippines – Is it possible for Filipinos within my lifetime — I just turned 60 — to unite and raise a great President who can make us believe that ours can be a strong nation?

For better or for worse, the principal criterion for success or failure of the incoming President has been set way before his time, in the mill of public expectations and the various doctrines of developmental regimes. That criterion is poverty alleviation.

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REDISTRIBUTING property rights through agrarian reform is a key policy direction that should be taken by the new administration of President-apparent Benigno Aquino III to help the country adapt to climate change, experts on land and asset reform said at a recent conference.

THE FINANCE department has drawn up a “wish list” for the incoming administration in the hope that fiscal consolidation will continue to be pursued. The items form part of a transition report submitted last May 21 to Malacañang for forwarding to the next Palace occupant.

In his Googled biography, apparent president-elect Noynoy Aquino was portrayed having the utopian dream of an industrialized Philippines where finding jobs will be a matter of choice for workers and not of necessity.

Knowing the Philippines well, I’d say Senator Benigno Aquino III faces an impossible task. He based his campaign on a moral revolution, a return to honesty and decency in government. The people voted for him because they wanted it too. The sympathy they felt for his mother that they transferred to him only added to…

Time was when only the press, rather a wee sector of it, reported the jockeying for positions in new administrations. Today, judging from wildly spreading texts, just about everybody knows, or thinks so, what’s going on. Latest SMS are about what Cabinet posts are being bagged by which faction in the incoming Noynoy Aquino government.…

Now that elections are over, at least except for the formalities, it’s time to buckle down to work. The incoming national administration, if it is to make good on its lofty promises, must as early as now figure out which of the country’s numerous pressing problems it must tackle first, and most intensely.

Exporters want the incoming administration to put in place an annual export fund and amend the mandate of the Philippine central bank to help the sector.

Part 1 of 2 The next Philippine president will have his work cut out for him.Apart from addressing new challenges that may arise during his or her term, the next administration will also have to tackle the old problems that are dragging down the country’s growth.

The country is at the dawn of a new administration and the most natural feeling for many is optimism. This optimism for change is a nation’s response to nine years of economic and political disarray under the Arroyo administration, and indeed from worsening poverty and backwardness. Yet even more welcome than the sense of hopefulness…