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The government shut down public schools and government offices, except those urgently needed for disaster response, on the entire main island of Luzon to protect millions of people as Tropical Storm Trami blew closer from the Pacific.
“There is definitely no more UniTeam,” Maria Ela Atienza, a University of the Philippines political science professor, told This Week in Asia, adding that both the president and vice-president “can no longer diplomatically state that it is business as usual”.
The first standing ovation to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) came close to the end – after more than an hour of data presentation – when he declared in his native language: “The West Philippine Sea [WPS] is not just a figment of imagination. It is ours.”
His decision was relayed by Presidential Communications Office Chief Secretary Cheloy Garafil to reporters via text message, in which Duterte-Carpio was listed as “chair” caretaker and “assisted” by presidential Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III.
Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio ranked as the most favoured potential presidential candidate in a survey released on January 25 by independent pollster WR Numero, with 35.6 per cent. Broadcaster and senator Raffy Tulfo came in at 23 per cent, and former vice-president Leni Robredo, who was defeated by Marcos Jnr in the 2022 election, received 9 per cent in the survey, which was conducted from November to December and had more than 1,000 respondents.