Nasa 60 hanggang 70 porsiyento nang tapos ang speech ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte para sa ika-apat niyang State of the Nation Address (SONA) sa Hulyo 22.

Ito ang inihayag ni Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar at sinabing inaasahan na itong matatapos sa darating na weekend.

Aniya, nakapaloob sa talumpati ng Pangulo ang legacy nito at ang maganda niyang plano para sa nalalabing tatlong taon pa bilang Pangulo ng bansa.

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“We’ve sent messages from the Presidential Management Staff (PMS), they’re asking us to vet some information at least from the Presidential Communications Operations Office. Some messages were also sent to other departments to vet. This is what they want the President to at least read. Once everything’s vetted, it is when the speech writing begins,” pahayag ni Andanar.

“The speech writing will be…60 to 70 percent complete by the end of this week or during the weekend. We should have at least a briefing with the President on the speech and with the director, Joyce Bernal,” sabi nito.

"Sa speech ng Pangulo, bringing poverty right down from 21 to 14 percent, and making the economy upper middle class by the end of his term,” ayon pa kay Andanar.

“Second would be the infrastructure projects, ‘Build, Build, Build,’ we really have to have hard infrastructure projects at the end of the day. And thirdly, there’s the peace and order highlighting the National Task Force to End Local Communists Armed Conflict. Because you can never have progress without peace and order—I think tututok ang Presidente sa mensahe na ‘yan,” paliwanag nito.

Posible rin aniyang talakayin ang usapin sa West Philippine Sea.

“It’s possible. But, what’s really important is how the President will be able to, also send the message again to the entire nation about our independent foreign policy— being friends to all and enemies to none — and it’s really worked on our side so far. We’ve received good trading deals with China and we’ve received more economic packages from Japan,” paliwanag pa ni Andanar.

“Our economy looks great, and people and different investors from different countries are investing in the Philippines. And I think, I believe that it is a result of that independent foreign policy — we’re friends to all, enemies to none,” dagdag pa nito.

Kumpiyansa rin si Andanar na bilang abogado, alam ng Pangulo ang ginagawa niya pagdating sa bilateral relations ng Pilipinas sa China.

“It is essentially the preservation of the life of the Filipino people that is most important as his constitutional duty. Sinasabi niya parati: Handa na ba tayong makipaggiyera sa China? Hindi tayo handang makipaggiyera sa China dahil kapag nakipaggiyera tayo sa China, wala pang limang oras, pulbos na tayong lahat, mga Pilipino. His constitutional mandate is to protect the Filipino, life of every Filipino and that’s it, and he’s coming from that argument,” dagdag pa ni Andanar.

PHILHARMONIC, TUTUGTOG

Sa unang pagkakataon sa kasaysayan, isang live symphony orchestra ang magiging bahagi ng SONA ng Pangulo.

Naghahanda ang Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), pangunahing orchestra sa Pilipinas at isa sa kilalang musical ensembles sa Asia-Pacific region, ng isang malaking presentasyon.

May 65 musicians ng PPO ang magpe-perform o kakanta ng ilang classic Filipino compositions sa pag-welcome sa mga opisyal ng gobyerno, kabilang ang mga miyembro ng House of Representatives (HOR), mga senador at guests sa SONA Day.

“Compared to the previous SONAs, medyo magugulat sila na mayroong Philharmonic na sasalubong sa kanila…Tama doon si Director Joyce Bernal, maiiba yung SONA (this year). This is an added something na binibigyan ng significance ang art, because we need that. We need to announce to the different Senators and Congressmen that we are around. We can be available to them,” ayon kay Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) President Arsenio Lizaso.