Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 19) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said his administration’s mission for 2024 is to continue government modernization.
“2023 was really the year of structural changes,” Marcos told reporters in Tokyo, Japan on the sidelines of the 50th Commemorative ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Summit over the weekend.
The president explained that the structural changes, particularly in the government, were necessary as the country, especially its economy, continues to reel from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
\”We have to remodel or re-adjust rather, for example, our fiscal policy, even our monetary policy, our spending policy, so that we are slowly moving— or not so slowly—we’re moving away from the COVID economy,\” Marcos said.
“Medyo obsolete na ‘yung ibang structure natin sa gobyerno [Some of our government structures are a bit obsolete]. We continue to modernize, we continue to be responsive to the new economy, that we position ourselves properly,” he added.
Marcos also noted that while his administration is moving in the right direction, it is still \”too slow\” for him.
\”So, we will just keep pushing and pushing and pushing para matapos lahat ito [to finish all of it] so that we can start to feel the effects of those changes that we made,” he added.
Since assuming the presidency in 2022, Marcos has been pushing for e-governance to eliminate layers of bureaucracy and simplify government transactions.
