OPINION | President Marcos is traveling too frequently By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr. READ:
c Economic Cooperation meetings, and to Brussels Belgium on Nov. 12 to attend the ASEAN-European Union Commemorative Summit.He started 2023 with another trip, to Beijing, on Jan. 3-5.rst seven months of his presidency, Mr. Bongbong Marcos had already made eight foreign trips. Peoplend them too frequent within a short period of time, in the very beginning of his term at that. The Oct.
But observers say many of the pledges made during visits of a head of state are customary gestures of courtesy by the host country. The pledges made during President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China are cited as examples. Some of the investment pledges made during state visits are existing expansion plans of multinational companies already doing business in the country of the visiting head of state. The plans would be implemented even if the visiting head of state had not come.
Political pundits say that while the other trips may have been necessary, the inclusion of members of Congress in the entourage was wrong. Speaker Romualdez accompanied the President onve of those trips, Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on three of them, and Congressman Sandro on three of them also.
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