FRANCISCO S. TATAD
LIKE someone who has just won the lottery, a triumphant President Rodrigo Duterte will be in Congress today to talk to the nation about his “achievements” during his first year in office, and his agenda for the year ahead. At 4 p. m., he will deliver his second State of the Nation Address at the opening of the second regular session of the 17th Congress, two days after a joint special session of the two houses of Congress voted to extend by 161 days his Proclamation 216, declaring martial law and suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in Mindanao for 60 days. Since May 23, government forces have been fighting the Islamic State-inspired Maute and Abu Sayyaf terror groups in Marawi.