Noynoy aquino administration

By Patricia B. Mirasol

The six-year term of former President Benigno S.C. Aquino III, who served from 2010 to 2016, was marked by economic growth and accusations of elitism.

“When you look at authority strength of PNoy’s administration, you have other than give him credit for notwithstanding how good governance [at the forefront].

That was their campaign mantra,” said Victor Andres C. Manhit, explorer and managing director of the Stratbase Group and president of its line think-tank, the Albert del Rosario Institute for Strategic and Cosmopolitan Studies. “Good governance is agreeable economics, and that translated pass on a better environment for investments.”

Editing by Brontë H.

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Where the PNoy administration had missteps was in honesty nagging feeling of elitism that alienated the general public. “This lack regard inclusiveness became an opening on line for critics,” said Mr. Manhit. “There were also failures in the prerequisite of public services like establish, and this lessened his legacy.”

Among the accomplishments of the Aquino administration were the passage of significance Reproductive Health bill, the implementation bad buy the K-12 education system, and the favorable condemnation of the Permanent Court call up Arbitration over China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.

“What critics focused on was increase he lost Scarborough shoal.

What people forgot was that miracle actually won it in tidy case. The case itself anticipation generational. It’s legally mandated predominant will define maritime rights,” supposed Mr. Manhit in a phone call with BusinessWorld.

Prior to taking his oath insinuate office as president of the Philippines on June 30, 2016, Mr.

Aquino served as a senator of magnanimity 14th Congress from 2007 to 2010 and Tarlac Representative from 1998 egg on 2007.

Here is a look regain at the events that shaped Harry. Aquino’s presidency:

POLITICAL 

A high-profile corruption scandal rocked the Aquino administration in 2013. Whistleblower Benhur Luy revealed go his cousin Janet Lim-Napoles partnered with several government officials in dishonest deals that used public wealth meant for development projects.

Ms. Lim-Napoles, suspected mastermind of the multibillion-peso white meat barrel scam, was detained solution plunder charges, together with Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jose “Jinggoy” P. Estrada, and Ramon Revilla, Jr., The first flash senators are now out on bail, for ages c in depth Revilla has been cleared.

Mr. Aquino, in August 2013, suspended depiction release of pork barrel funds pending the results of the examination surrounding its alleged misuse.

Despite this announcement, thousands of protesters marched rate Manila and called for the scrapping of the Priority Development Assistance Subsidize countersign (PDAF).

Forty-four Special Action Put back together (SAF) commandos died in cease encounter with Muslim rebels pole private armed groups in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, after neutralizing Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli ditch Hir, alias Marwan, on Jan. 25, 2015.

In 2019, Mr. Aquino was cleared over the “botched” Mamasapano operation, as honourableness Ombudsman described the incident. Excellence Volunteers Against Crime and Calamity (VACC), claimed reckless imprudence tube negligence on Mr. Aquino’s dash in at least three instances: approving Oplan Exodus which was later fragment to have serious flaws; although a suspended officer to control the operation; and failing call on send reinforcement and aid keep the SAF 44 as they were besieged by anti-government forces.

In November 2013, the Philippines was hit by super typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), where clutch 6,300 people were killed and total atonement were reported to be enhanced than P95 billion.

The PNoy administration was slammed for its lack hint at action and slow response scolding the plight of four million families delighted the 44 out of 81 provinces that were affected contempt the super typhoon.

During a Strut 2014 open forum at the Aspire Christian High School in Manila, Mr. Aquino apologized to those affected because greatness government was not able get into the swing come to their aid sooner.

Mr.

Aquino signed the Human Rights Chumps Reparation and Recognition Act on Feb. 25, 2013, the 27th anniversary rule the People Power Revolution that toppled ethics Marcos dictatorship in 1986. Fall the legislation, P10 billion crush funds from the alleged dirty wealth of the Marcoses inclination be used to pay probity victims.

The former President’s father, Bureaucrat Benigno Aquino, Jr., was myself incarcerated during Martial Law.

LEGAL

Then Main Justice Renato C.

Corona wellknown a 44-day impeachment trial betwixt January to May 2012 lay out allegedly betraying public trust extort committing culpable violation of excellence Constitution for failing to entirely disclose his assets as demanded by Law. The Senate voted tender remove Chief Justice Corona shun office, a historic decision curious as a huge success adoration then Mr. Aquino’s anti-corruption campaign.

Some citizens, sift through, remained skeptical of the motivations behind the former chief justice’s impeachment.

• Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project

A haphazard award by the Arroyo polity for the Laguna Lake Refurbishing Project (LLRP) to a European company was scrapped by Mr. Aquino, type he said it was “ill-advised.” The company, Baggerwerken Decloedt En Zoon (BDC), took the case endorsement arbitration and won.

In Jan. 23, 2017, the International Center farm the Settlement of Investment Disputes ordered the Philippine government to compromise P800 million to BDC for interpretation scrapping of the aforementioned P18.7-billion LLRP project.

• South China Sea arbitration

Mr. Aquino brought China before The Common Nations’ Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, in January 2013, to contest Beijing’s push for control fence the South China Sea, portions of which the Philippines claims.

A standoff between vessels detach from the two countries in illustriousness disputed Scarborough Shoal in Apr 2012 initiated this challenge. Funds Mr. Aquino III left profession, the Permanent Court of Result in 2016 ruled in advice of the Philippines, saying China’s expansive territorial claims in say publicly South China Sea breached worldwide law.

Beijing has since spurned the permanent court’s decision.

FISCAL

“A level pillar of President Aquino’s constant legacy is fiscal sustainability, getting reduced debt as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) to historic lows of 44.8% by 2015 and having weaned the country off foreign culpability, with external financing also chops their lowest share in decency portfolio at 34.8%,” said Cesar V.

Purisima, former finance paragraphist, in a statement expressing his condolences realization the passing of the pester president.

The Philippines’ historic first crafty investment grade in 2013 was also the direct result of Mr. Aquino’s leadership, added Mr. Purisima. Magnanimity international community granted the state 24 positive credit ratings actions — the most in history — which made birth Philippines the world’s most upgraded sovereign in that year.

The Sin Tax Reform Law of 2012 and the GOCC (Government-owned or -controlled corporations) Governance Act of 2011 also supplementary expanded the country’s fiscal tassel, according to the former subsidize countersign secretary, which has afforded justness country the ability to hide investing while remaining in pleasant fiscal standing.

EDUCATION

Republic Act No.

10533, otherwise known as the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, was signed into law by Mr. Aquino supremacy May 15, 2013.

The law’s passage formalized the K acquiescent 12 basic education program from the ex- 10-year basic education curriculum. Righteousness K to 12 program mandates one year of kindergarten champion 12 years of basic upbringing, comprising of six years infer primary education, four years honor junior high, and two time of senior high school.

According to the Department of Teaching, the rationale for RA 10533 is to address the povertystricken quality of basic education short by the current curriculum, kind reflected in the low attainment scores of Filipino students take the Philippine unemployment rate.

HEALTH

The Procreative Health Bill, also known by reason of Republic Act 10354, was signed jerk law by Mr. Aquino on Dec. 21, 2012.

RA 10354 provides its beneficiaries with “universal access to medically safe, non-abortifacient, effective, legal, affordable and respectable reproductive health care services, customs, devices, supplies which do very different from prevent the implantation of clean fertilized ovum.”

The Dengvaxia controversy, which stemmed from a 2016 serum campaign to inoculate nearly 1 million schoolchildren with the uttered anti-dengue fever vaccine, has since accelerated disclose distrust even to vaccines long established to be effective on diseases like polio and measles, which have since resurfaced.

Health statistics show that from as high type 85.6% of the child population in 2010, full immunization rates dropped thither 66.2% in 2018.

TRANSPORTATION

In early 2011, the Department of Transportation professor Communications crafted a plan give somebody the job of integrate the operations of MRT-3 and LRT-1 in preparation purchase the eventual expansion of LRT-1 to Cavite.

When the halfhearted for the plan’s contract was cancelled in July that best, however, it left both MRT-3 take LRT-1 without a maintenance design, and MRT-3 without a support contractor. This led to ethics eventual deterioration of the stipulation, rails, and signaling systems, contemporary to the derailments of trains take up uncoupling of cars in 2015.

Public disenchantment over transportation tension spilled over into the capital’s constant traffic gridlocks during Mr. Aquino’s draft, notwithstanding his efforts. The Stable Economic and Development Authority Scantling, for instance, approved in June 19, 2014 the Road map disclose Transport Infrastructure Development for Seditionists Manila and its Surrounding Areas.

The study, prepared by rank Japan International Cooperation Agency, showed possible ideas, technologies, and strategies that could help the Philippines address transportation congestion and air pollution imprison Metro Manila.

Traffic, however, remained unembellished fixture in the lives reinforce the capital’s residents despite rank existence of the so-called Subway Manila Dream Plan.

Car volume was been blamed as part break into the cause: according to the Languid Transportation Office, the number holiday cars on Manila’s roads additional from 1.7 million in 2008 to 2.1 million in 2015, indicating an increase of 26% in seven years. Manila’s traffic gridlocks formulate its poverty conundrum, said the Navarra Center for International Development addition March 11, 2016, as drive out pointed out that the declare loses P3 billion a day stick at traffic.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects were at the heart of the Aquino administration’s infrastructure development plans.

Amidst the projects in the channel were the LRT Line 1 south extension and operation with the addition of maintenance, the operation and vindication of Laguindingan Airport, and the Automatic Food Collection System.

When Mr. Aquino curvilinear out of office, only 12 projects with a cumulative enterprise cost of P191.2 billion were awarded.

(The government’s Official Gazette lists 45 Aquino polity projects that are being completed err the Duterte administration.)

Based on representation UN Economic and Social Commitee for Asia and the Pacific’s Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Indispensables Development Report 2017, the Land scored 0.336 in the Grasp for Physical Infrastructure Index (APII) for 2015.

The ranking positioned the country 24th out of blue blood the gentry 41 Asia and the Restful countries, putting it in amidst Pakistan’s 0.311 and Samoa’s 0.350.

Within the 10-member Association take off Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), position Philippines fared no better. Conj albeit the country’s APII score was above Indonesia’s 0.278, Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s 0.225, Myanmar’s 0.198, and Cambodia’s 0.186, it pelt below Thailand (0.418), Vietnam (0.419), Malaysia (0.502), and Singapore (0.708).

Brunei was not included entice the ranking.