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We’ve reached the year’s halfway mark and are getting deeper into the third quarter of the year as August kicks in, in a matter of days. Pretty soon, the “-ber” months will come marching in and before we know it, the end of 2026.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was probably aware of the remaining time he has left in the presidency, so much so that during his State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 27, he turned populist and announced what many were clamoring for: cases being filed against his cousin Martin Romualdez, former speaker of the House of Representatives.
Romualdez, as then-head honcho in the lower chamber, was known to be in full control of the 2025 budget — criticized as being riddled with irregularities, among them insertions and supposed falsified documents. The Ombudsman tagged him as a “central figure” in a grand scheme that saw the outrageous diversion of public funds intended for flood control projects to legislators’ pockets. We probed into these in 2025, not long after Marcos’ “mahiya naman kayo” (shame on you) address.
