President Rodrigo Duterte has failed to address in his 3rd SONA the “change” he promised the people during the presidential campaign.

President Duterte did not address the reforms which the people want, but instead concentrated on the so-called reforms he himself wants to pursue and implement.

The people do not clamor for a shift to federalism because the overwhelming majority of them are unaware of federalism, do not care to know about the federal system or do not understand what federalism is all about.

But going federal is high in the President’s agenda.

The people want the President to reform his pathetic and unpatriotic response to China’s incursion on and militarization in the West Philippine Sea.

However, the President insists on his unpopular stance deferring to China’s expansionism in the West Philippine Sea.

The people want economic reforms to arrest poverty. Yet the President insists on the full implementation of the TRAIN Law which has triggered the rise of inflation to 6.1% on food and non-alcoholic beverages, thus exacerbating food poverty, further reducing the people’s purchasing power, and decreasing the value of real wages.