GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE expected to be competent and intelligent leaders, or better yet, brilliant leaders, real experts in decision-making in crafting policies, laws, programs and day-to-day directions that are effectively workable and implementable for the benefit, not for their personal interest, but for their constituents, and for the country as a whole.
And in this case the top-most government leadership, the president and the vice-president should be always on their toes, watching how they are leading the country to real continuing development and progress for the country.
Given that President Bongbong Marcos and Vice-President Sara Duterte aspired for their respective positions (although supposedly winning in an election electronically rigged by the Comelec led by Chairman George Erwin Garcia, as claimed by the IT expert TNTrio and many other professional IT expert citizens and groups), they effectively bound themselves, taking their oath, to be responsible leaders “to give justice” to everyone, to every Filipino.
So also holding the same important responsibility are those elected or appointed to public positions, those in Congress and LGUs, and other officials in the Judiciary and other government institutions.
INTELLIGENT LEADERSHIP
With the fifth and last SONA of President Bongbong Marcos, how competent and professional has he been as a leader and head of government, in tandem with his VP Sara Duterte, in leading the country to greater heights of progress, if at all.
Do the people see his leadership as intelligent enough, or at times, brilliant even, to set and model the appropriate standard of decision-making for the officials under his administration? Or worse, have there been stupid decision-making, forcing the people to resort to the “parliament of the streets”?
Sadly, while the Filipino people were expecting brilliant decision-making by top government officials, they were deluged with lots of stupid decision-making.
SUPER-SLOW ACTION
Varied problems hounded the people.
They wondered why the super-slow actions taken by law enforcers and the Ombudsman in filing the appropriate charges against erring senators, congressmen, and other officials and employees undoubtedly involved in getting kickbacks from the DPWH flood-control and other infrastructure projects nationwide.
The Senate, the so-called ‘bright-boys/girls’ chamber, deemed the ‘training ground’ for a future “President of the country” was a big disappointment!
Despite a clear case for the impeachment of VP Sara Duterte way back in 2025 (after exhaustive TV-live-streamed Congress investigations, finding her guilty of betraying her oath as vice-president, among other crimes against the people), the Senate archived the case needlessly.
DEBATE CALISTHENICS
The senators were occupied with their personal vested political interests, and were deep into their “debating calisthenics”! To the people, the “honorable” senators wasted their millions-worth daily sessions for the many months of “debates” at the expense of the people’s welfare — the money could have been spent for building the needed thousands of school classrooms, or for the treatment of thousands of sick people unable to buy their medicines, or being hospitalized, or providing the financial needs of underpaid workers, farmers, fishermen and IPs, and professionals like the nurses and teachers.
UNDERPERFORMING
The judicial branch of government has also been terribly underperforming in dispensing justice to the countless victims of the PNP/AFP.
Will the fugitive from ICC justice, Sen. Bato de la Rosa be apprehended soon and called to account for his bloody record of EJKs? When will the NTF-ELCAC be abolished, having been illegally red/terrorist-tagging activists and development workers, causing their illegal arrests, tortures, detentions, enforced disappearances and EJKs! When will the more than 770 political prisoners freed for justice’ sake?
Stupid decisions by the president and government officials have been rampant because they don’t listen to their constituents – the people!