POLITICAL allies of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have a supermajority in Congress, and yet they have missed an opportunity to pass many of his priority bills. At his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) nearly a year ago, the President presented a lengthy list of bills needed to recover from the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and to put the Philippines back on track to be an upper-middle-income country in a few years.

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