The Legok Nangka waste-to-energy plant and Sarulla geothermal project remain active under AZEC. The March 15 MoC adds nuclear to a bilateral energy agenda that already spans geothermal, LNG, coal, and critical minerals.
Only a united, sustained push from citizens, civil society, and business can force Congress to act on reforms that threaten entrenched political power.
A ₱500 Noche Buena may be framed as guidance, but the backlash reveals deeper concerns about dignity, hardship, and a government struggling to read the public’s economic reality.
A public break within a ruling dynasty tests whether Filipinos will see truth-telling against one’s own family as betrayal or a long-overdue reckoning.
Elite immunity is collapsing as insiders turn on each other, exposing a fractured political system where fear replaces loyalty, trust erodes, and power rapidly shifts away from the old order.