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PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says for his upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA), the content will comprise a report on the government's efforts to tackle the challenges of the past year. In an ambush interview on July 24, 2026, Marcos said that the SONA would reflect the administration's measures to steer the country through 'a very difficult period in our history,' marked by external and domestic pressures. VIDEO BY MPC POOL

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00:00What is your preparation for Monday for you long?
00:01What does the public expect of your address?
00:04Well, I will always regard the SONA as a report,
00:09a report of the President to the public as to what has happened since the last SONA.
00:15And that is what we will take up, of course.
00:18I will make sure that people know all of the things that we have done
00:24to navigate this very difficult period in our history,
00:29where we are positive by all of these external forces.
00:34But nonetheless, our response has been good.
00:38And we have had to make adjustments,
00:41but those adjustments have been effective and have served their purpose.
00:45And I know that it has helped people weather this storm
00:49and continue to weather this storm until things hopefully normalize.
00:54Sir, are you done writing the script, sir?
00:56I'm sorry?
00:57Are you done writing the script, sir?
00:59I'm never done.
01:00Until one hour before this one, I'm still changing it, you know,
01:04because, of course, we want it to be perfect.
01:06So, but on the whole, yes, on the whole, it's a...
01:09I would say the actual language is, I know,
01:15we're just, we're just fixing it up and making sure that it's too long
01:20or too short that we have everything that we want to talk about is already.
01:24And the people expect that we will address the corruption that we expressed last time?
01:30Thank you, sir.
01:33Thank you, sir.
01:34Thank you, sir.
01:36Thank you, sir.
01:47Thank you, sir.
01:54Thank you, sir.
01:57Thank you, everybody.
01:59Thanks, sir.
02:00Thank you, sir.
02:00Thank you, sir.
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