IF I WERE THE NEXT PRESIDENT

(Part 2 of a series)

ByBEN R. PUNONGBAYAN

Founder, Buklod National Political Party

As President, I will devote my whole six-year term to provide a much more effective, efficient, decisive and widely focused national leadership with the primary objective of transforming the Filipino nation into a fair, just, equitable and economically well-developed society and, thus, take a big leap forward from what it is today.

The centerpiece and overarching program of that transformation is the substantial reduction, if not near eradication, of widespread poverty and hunger.

Through this series of commentaries, I will endeavor to communicate thesignificant programsthat our administration will undertake to achieve that exceedingly challenging transformation objective, but nonetheless a doable pursuit given the zealousness of our purpose.

As mentioned in the first part of this series, there are urgent issues that need to be properly focused at and…