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Congress of the Philippines. The State of the Nation Address (SONA [ˈsɔna]; Filipino: Talumpati sa Kalagayan ng Bansa[1]) is an annual address by the president of the Philippines to a joint session of the Congress of the Philippines. Mandated by the 1987 Constitution, the speech is delivered on the fourth Monday of July at the Plenary Session ...
The SONA is traditionally held annually. The presidential speech has been delivered in English until 2009 when it was last delivered in the said language. [citation needed] Benigno Aquino III was the first president to deliver the presidential speech in Filipino. He used Filipino in all of his six speeches from 2010 to 2015.
Philippine presidential inauguration. The inauguration of the president of the Republic of the Philippines is a ceremony marking the commencement of the six-year term of a president of the Philippines, who is both head of state and head of government. The inauguration is performed on June 30, as mandated by the 1987 Constitution.
Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898, between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite at the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Cavite el Viejo (present-day Kawit), Cavite, some 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Manila. The event saw the unfurling of the flag of the Philippines, made in Hong Kong by Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza ...
Address content and delivery. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his 5th State of the Nation Address at the House of Representatives Complex in Quezon City on July 27, 2020. In his speech which lasted for 1 hour and 41 minutes, [11] Duterte addressed the current pandemic and its effects to the country. He urged Congress to pass 21 priority ...
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The inauguration of Benigno S. Aquino III as the fifteenth president of the Philippines took place on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. [ 1 ] The oath of office was administered by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Conchita Carpio-Morales. [ 2 ]
Three former Presidents, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo attended the SONA. This was the first time that Arroyo attended Congress after being detained for four years at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City, after the Supreme Court voted 11-4, dismissing the plunder case filed against her in connection with the alleged misuse of the Philippine Charity ...