NGAYON pa lang ay pinaghahandaan na ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III ang kanyang State of the Nation Address (SONA) para sa Hulyo.
Sa katunayan, ayon kay Deputy Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte, noon pang Pebrero sinimulan ng cabinet members ni PNoy ang magsumite ng kani-kanilang mga partial accomplishment report na hihimayin ng Punong Ehekutibo para personal na ilagay sa kanyang SONA.
“A partial accomplishment report—partial count, partial and unofficial. There are so many things I— You have to give me a focus point, to where to start at least for… Well, for one, off the top of my head, I can think of the passage of the sin tax measure which was one of the things that was mentioned by the President in the previous SONA,” ani Usec. Valte sabay sabing “We’ll have the… We’ll have PCDSPO prepare a comparative matrix for your, ano, for your background at least before the President delivers his SONA. But, yes, the work on the SONA has already started.Traditionally, we start work on the SONA around February because a big part of crafting the President’s SONA is making sure that the departments have put in their respective reports on areas of accomplishment that they would want to be mentioned in the SONA; and, also, the task of vetting and verifying the data that will end up in the President’s SONA is also a task that has begun very early in the year.”
Sinabi pa rin niya na sinimulan na rin ng Pangulong Aquino ang talakayin ang mga dapat niyang sabihin ngayong 2013 SONA.
“I understand that the President has started to talk about the rudiments of the speech for this particular year. What the focus will be is something that is still fluid and still under discussion,” aniya pa rin.