What netizens thought of Duterte's first SONA

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<p>Netizens were mostly in praise of the first State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte delivered Monday when asked on social media about their opinion of this event. </p><p>Duterte received mostly positive feedback from netizens in informal and unscientific polls posted by ABS-CBN News on social media about the president&#x27;s first chance to present formally to the nation his government&#x27;s plans and priorities. </p><p>Most of the netizens pointed out in the polls that ended Tuesday, 24 hours after the delivery of the president&#x27;s address, that they found substance in the speech. Some, however, pointed out that there were some issues that were not mentioned.</p><p>The speech lasted beyond an hour and 30 minutes, longer than expected, as Duterte went off-script at some points of his prepared speech.</p><p>[<a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/07/25/16/watch-the-first-du30-sona-in-4-minutes" target="_blank">WATCH: The first Du30 SONA in 4 minutes</a>]</p><p>In 24-hour Twitter and Facebook polls posted on ABS-CBN News accounts, netizens were asked if they thought that the Duterte speech covered changes or issues that concerned them, and which they expected to hear from the president&#x27;s speech.</p><p>On Twitter, 4,332 people responded; 66% of them said Duterte covered issues that must be tackled. However, 34% said some issues were not mentioned by the president. </p><p>[<a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/07/25/16/read-transcript-of-president-dutertes-1st-sona" target="_blank">READ: Transcript of President Duterte&#x27;s 1st SONA</a>]</p><p>Political organization Ladlad replied to the ABS-CBN News poll and said the president forgot to mention LGBT issues. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews">@ABSCBNNews</a> No mention of the Filipino LGBT sector!</p>— LADLADofficial (@LADLADofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/LADLADofficial/status/757512446659563520">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Another netizen commented he had hoped to hear more about education and science. There was no explicit mention of these topics in the speech. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews">@ABSCBNNews</a> was hoping for more about education and science in the ph 😓</p>— kouhai (@baebaraaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/baebaraaa/status/757513039813890048">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Here are more samples of citizens&#x27; comments on Twitter:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews">@ABSCBNNews</a> education 💔</p>— w a n h e d a (@itsdanicabeybe) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsdanicabeybe/status/757512729695367168">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews">@ABSCBNNews</a> NO. Education, gender rights, land reform, and extrajucial killings were not stressed. These are just some.</p>— Jarelle Abario (@eljarelle) <a href="https://twitter.com/eljarelle/status/757553526444691456">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Many commended Duterte for his speech. A 12 a.m. update on Tuesday of the Twitter poll showed that more netizens -- 62% -- voted &#x27;yes&#x27; to the question on the completeness of the president&#x27;s speech, while 38% disagreed. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Netizens voted whether or not they were satisfied with Pres. Duterte&#x27;s first SONA. Here are the results, as of 12 AM <a href="https://t.co/DMrBsYxjIw">pic.twitter.com/DMrBsYxjIw</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/757606656251277312">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Netizens voted whether or not they were satisfied with Pres. Duterte&#x27;s first SONA. Here are the results, as of 6 AM <a href="https://t.co/zUJgfDtzC0">pic.twitter.com/zUJgfDtzC0</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/757701495869485057">July 25, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>Netizens also placed their observations via comments on a Facebook poll on the same issue. There, Duterte received mostly positive reviews.</p><p>However, some also expressed their hopes that these promises will not be broken.</p><p>Artem Estrellanes wrote, &quot;hindi man lahat, pero sapat na ang kanyang mga plano para sa ikauunlad ng ating [naghihingalong] bayan.&quot; </p><p>Another netizen named Xandria Resuello observed, &quot;ito ang Sonang walang ligoy-ligoy. Kung ano ang tunay na kailangan solusyunan na problema doon siya naka-focus.&quot; </p><p>Chan Santos said, &quot;hoping na ito na ang pagbabagong magaganap sa Pinas. Promising &#x27;yung mga binitawan, well sana nga hindi na uso sa gobyerno na inuuna negosyo kesa interest ng mamamayan.&quot;</p><p>Here are other comments from netizens from the Facebook poll:</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/07/26/13820311_10206730423606879_1496468764_n.png"/> <img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/07/26/13820748_10206730421646830_829745657_n.png"/></figure></div>

Netizens weigh in on President Rodrigo Duterte's first State of the Nation Address, where he presented his administration's program of government.

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What netizens thought of Duterte's first SONA

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Published Jul 26, 2016 10:02 PM PHT

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