What Lies Ahead for P-Noy?

President Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino, III was indeed destined to become the country’s top man even before he decided to run for the presidency in the last elections. It was destiny that ferried him to the helm of power.

The odds of getting elected against powerful machinery of the presidential contenders were no barriers to his victory as the chosen and pre-destined leader of the country.

His official admission to Malacanang last June 30, has indeed paved way for his performance of the first task as the country’s 15th President albeit criticism of the blunder in giving a first memorandum described as blooper in his very first day of work. Yet Noy is only human and such slip-up does not mean much to diminish the credibility of a man with passion to achieve the transition of the country to a new Philippines. But what lies ahead of him in the next six years?

True that his predecessor, judged for the legacies she left in her nine years of power, for which her critics say, were all at the expense of the government’s deficit of about P340 billion of which the Noy administration inherits, shall now become the burden of the succeeding powers-that-be to start at the very beginning. Blatantly, President Aquino is trying to manifest the political will, to eradicate the alleged grime of the former administration and introduce change for new Philippines.

Yet even as President Aquino still has to prove his worth, his critics seem to have begun discrediting his capability to lead the country into a new nation of fair excellence.

Issues of psychiatric background during the elections, alleged rift with his vice president, who is likely to deny any cabinet position that has to do with the investigation of alleged graft and corruption of the outgoing president, his being a bachelor at the midst of his life, the shadow cabinet of Sec. Norberto Gonzales, the midnight appointments made by his predecessor, the proposed addition in the academic year for elementary and secondary education, and the inclusion of undefined sex education in the elementary level are but few of the aggravating concerns that might disturb the president, notwithstanding the economic imbalance of the country today.

But grave is the statement of Sec. Gonzales pointing to the formation of a shadow cabinet for the “government in waiting?” An implication of this statement is something that the Aquino government should dissect to the fullest, the fact that there was a precedent during the regime of former President Cory, P-Noy’s mother, of bloody coup die’tats.

In a nutshell, President NoyNoy Aquino should be given all the benefits of doubt to prove his able capabilities to lead a nation. The support and cooperation of the citizenry should be given a fully elected president by majority of the people.

Filipinos should bind themselves together and rally behind the young president whose objectives are to emancipate the Filipino people from the lethargy of economic disproportion and the bondage of poverty.