THE initial results of Monday’s midterm elections show that President Rodrigo Duterte is likely to have more help in pushing for legislative reforms, an analyst said on Wednesday.

“With more lawmakers who are allied [with] the [Duterte] administration winning more [seats] at the Senate (and also at the House of Representatives), the greater the chances of increased support [for] the more timely enactment of [the] national budget, as well as [for] more economic, fiscal and other reform measures that require legislation…[in] the remaining three years of the Duterte administration,” Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) Head of Economics and Industry Research Division Michael Ricafort told The Manila Times.

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