AS in past state-of-the-nation addresses, reactions to President Rodrigo Duterte’s first SONA ranged pretty wide.

There were lawmakers looking for omissions here and there, and a veteran journalist and some academics lamenting what they saw as a lack of vision and an excess of distraction obscuring key policy thrusts.

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