By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Bulatlat.com

MANILA – Addressed to big businesses and not for ordinary Filipinos.

This is the reaction of Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Arlene Brosas on the first state of the nation address of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday, July 25.

Brosas said Marcos Jr. did not mention anything about easing the impacts of the economic crisis on the poor.

“Marcos Jr.’s top priorities are not in sync with what poor Filipinos need – lowering of prices of food and basic commodities, wage hike, contractualization, affordable housing, end to human rights violations and extra-judicial killings, and resumption of peace talks,” Brosas said.

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