Continuity is needed

“The race is to the swift; the battle to the strong.” –  John Davidson           The next president must not take off where President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had left off in his obsessive war against drug trafficking and drug addiction, anti-corruption fixation, and eradication of criminality which noteworthy crusades are unfortunately controversial, unwinnable, and interminable. Without abandoning those objectives, what is urgent today is the reopening of the economy, checkmating the spread of the coronavirus by vaccination, generating jobs, and democratizing wealth. With general elections around the corner and time running out, it will mean that the same political system will remain, popularity and money politics will  determine the outcome of the elections, and the oligarchy will continue to rule the nation.