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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. leads the inauguration of the country’s first interactive Energy Museum to mark the 25th-anniversary commemoration of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) at the Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City on July 29, 2026. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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MARCOS- ENERGY MUSEUM

Katrina Domingo

ABS-CBN News

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178676886194820260729-marcos-doe-energy-museum-epira-25-JC-5328.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960" alt="President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. leads the inauguration of the country’s first interactive Energy Museum to mark the 25th-anniversary commemoration of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) at the Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City on July 29, 2026. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News"/>President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. leads the inauguration of the country’s first interactive Energy Museum to mark the 25th-anniversary commemoration of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) at the Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City on July 29, 2026. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</div>MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said that he hopes his administration would leave a legacy of restoring the public&#x27;s trust in government.&quot;Legacy? I just hope we put the faith of people back in government, and that we now have a government that people can depend on, people can trust, and that people can talk to,&quot; Marcos told reporters when asked about what legacy he hopes to leave behind in two years.&quot;Instead of having the government telling you these are the things you do, I hope that we have started a listening government where we actually listen to people. We don&#x27;t tell people what to do,&quot; he said.<div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/14/marcos-visits-photo-exhibit-chronicling-his-presidency-0054">READ: Marcos visits photo exhibit chronicling his presidency</a></div>Marcos said he has started to do this by increasing his engagements with local government officials. His administration has also devolved funding through the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF), which allows local governments to have more input on where to allocate tax payers&#x27; money in their respective vicinities.&quot;The local government knows the situation in their area better than anybody else, better than the President, better than the Cabinet secretaries, better than anybody else,&quot; he said.&quot;No one should know more about their constituency than them. Same applies to a mayor. Same applies to a barangay official so that we make government more accessible, not only in terms of transparency, but accessible in terms of we can bring our concerns to government and we have enough confidence that they will, in fact, do something about it,&quot; he said.&quot;That&#x27;s the legacy I hope to leave: that now government is your partner hand in hand with every citizen, with every sector, hand in hand trying to build a better Philippines, trying to make the Philippines better, trying to make the lives of our people better, trying to create more jobs, trying to increase the livelihood, trying to bring development, trying to be part of the global economy, an active part, an important part of the global economy.&quot; &quot;That&#x27;s what we are trying to do. That&#x27;s what I hope that we will leave when the time comes in 2028.&quot;<div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/14/marcos-on-halalan-2028-i-will-endorse-someone-who-will-continue-anti-corruption-measures-1439">READ: Marcos on Halalan 2028: &#x27;I will endorse someone who will continue anti-corruption measures’</a></div>Among the crises that jolted the Marcos Jr. administration was the unearthing of a deeply entrenched corruption scheme, where government officials colluded with private contractors to pilfer billions in tax payers&#x27; money through bogus flood control projects.Last year, Marcos ordered an investigation on all flood control projects since he took office in 2022 and released the full list through a public website.Despite this, the president&#x27;s trust ratings fell to 28 percent in July 2026 from 25 percent in Marcos, according to a Social Weather Stations survey, as the public continue to clamor for accountability in government.Marcos said the presidential candidate he would endorse for the 2028 national elections would be someone who would continue his administration&#x27;s anti-corruption programs.<div><a class="fr-strong fr-green" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/8/12/marcos-administration-s-satisfaction-rating-rebounds-to-neutral-1-in-june-sws-1635">READ: Marcos administration&#x27;s satisfaction rating rebounds to neutral +1 in June — SWS</a></div>&quot;When the time comes, when we leave, that is what I hope that we will leave behind is this culture of development, of nation building,&quot; he said.&quot;If I can do that, if I have met with even some success to do that, then I will say that we have done a reasonably good job. We will never have done a perfect job but we will have done a reasonably good job,&quot; he said.&quot;Nation building once again returns to the government, once again returns to the people, once again returns to the country. That perhaps is the most important thing that I hope to achieve.&quot;

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said that he hopes his administration would leave a legacy of restoring the public's trust in government.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said that he hopes his administration would leave a legacy of restoring the public's trust in government.

Marcos on his legacy: 'I hope we put faith of people back in government'

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Marcos on his legacy: 'I hope we put faith of people back in government'

Katrina Domingo,

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Published August 15, 2026 01:03 PM PHT

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