P.Noy's 100 days

Despite the bungled hostage crisis and the dramatic confrontation with the Church about birth control, 70% of the recently surveyed Filipinos are still showing their strong support behind P.Noy. That should inspire P.Noy to continue to focus on the fulfillment of his promises to our people and to bring about moral change in the government and all throughout our country.

The continuing strong support of our people for him should also strengthen P.Noy to evaluate if his appointed people and team to work with him to fulfill his promises to our people are one with him in integrity and purpose toward moral governance.

The strong support behind P.Noy should also lead him to humbly accept if he has made mistakes in his appointments and in his policies and proceed to rectify these.

Against 6 years of governance, the first 100 days may still be too short a time to really give P.Noy and his new government some scores for governance. Still, all early steps taken by him and his team after his June proclamation can be taken as precursor for subsequent action and policies on his part. If some directions taken and if some appointments made have not been in line with his promise of genuine reform and change for our people, then P.Noy can have this early opportunity and time to shift gears, sincerely acknowledge initial mistakes and weaknesses and move on towards more strength and more resolve and team work to have a better, more transparent, more public-service type of governance for our people and for our country.

Puno has reported being asked by P.Noy to stay. If Puno has the sincere interest of our people in mind, he will himself be the one to inform the President about his irrevocable resignation from DILG. P.Noy instead can keep him as a confidential adviser or transfer him to a position more fit for his qualifications that will translate to more service for our nation. P.Noy's appointments should be guided by what our people and our country needs and not what he or his appointees prefer. People first before friends, before family, before party. Did P.Noy not assure the Filipino people so earlier?

 The reported factions in his government should also dialogue among themselves and reflect sincerely on who among them can best serve the people first and foremost, not their own interests, not their own parties. If they truly wish to serve with P.Noy and serve the Filipino people, surely, there are ways for them to decide on amicable division of tasks and labor, regardless of positions in or out of government?

Our readers have written us their comments that P.Noy alone cannot move this country towards genuine change. The team that he appoints or the team that will work with him should be just as humble, just as focused in providing genuine public service to our people.

That should be the basis for being part of P.Noy's cabinet and government: That the interests of the Filipino people should come first, with the poor and the needy given the highest priority of all. How can the needy get their food, their jobs, their other basic welfare needs within the shortest time possible in this new administration?

Without clear results, the Filipino people can easily see through insincere, abusive team members of P.Noy. Accustomed to so much abuse and corruption in the past, our people can easily detect a scoundrel, a corrupt and abusive person within the present administration.

Having these insincere members working with a very sincere President will weaken even a very honest and genuine public servant like P.Noy.

Hopefully, the warring factions surrounding P.Noy will realize sooner than later that if they do not get their act together and if the mediocre and insincere are forced to be part of P.Noy's team more than the genuine, sincere public servants, the Filipino people will retaliate by giving P.Noy a score just like the previous leaders of the past or worse, the people may opt to have another set of more sincere leaders with sincere team workers take over.

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