Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr outlined a series of ambitious initiatives in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), but analysts said the plans lacked detail and that there were glaring omissions on key issues such as human rights.
Hundreds of legislators, officials and guests gathered on Monday at the Batasan Pambansa Complex, the headquarters of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, in Quezon city to hear Marcos Jr set out his agenda in what is also the traditional curtain-raiser for sessions of the Senate and Congress.
