Marcos marks 2023 with structural changes in policies and decisions


MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (pic) has been in office for a year and six months. As he spends his second Christmas as the Chief Executive, he describes 2023 as the period for changes at the core.

“Those structural changes were necessary because we have to remodel, or readjust rather, our... for example, our fiscal policy, even our monetary policy, our spending policy, so that we are slowly moving, or not so slowly, so, we’re moving away from the Covid economy,” observed Marcos.

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