BBM's legacy?

With barely a month before the midterm elections and three years to the end of his term, it is strange to see that there is hardly a whimper from the Palace about big legacy projects that will help BBM redeem his family's reputation.

- BOO CHANCO

On the contrary, his elder sister has demolished any possibility that the children of our late dictator will clean up the Marcos name.

If BBM wants to think about legacy, he has to deliver earth-shaking projects the country needed decades ago but which former presidents failed to accomplish. There should be little time for indulging in petty politics, but that's what the children of Ferdinand the First are doing now.

Thus far, the only thing BBM has delivered is former president Digong to the ICC. We must admit that that takes some political daring to do, and its execution was rather good. Doing that has apparently cost BBM a lot of political brownie points, if the latest surveys are to be believed. That's one more reason why the Palace should be in panic mode to deliver on projects and promises to prove he has the kind of leadership the country needs now.

By doing not much, BBM is proving his critics in the Duterte camp and elsewhere right — that he is indeed too laid-back, too spoiled (anak mayaman), and too detached from the real problems of the country to be useful. Even his own Cabinet members seem to be copying BBM's laid-back attitude on their deliverables and also doing not much in the face of the country's many dire needs.

The only real and tangible accomplishment of BBM to this day is the successful public bidding and award of the modernization of NAIA. And as expected, the private sector group that won the award has quickly delivered many basic and much-needed improvements in the airport's management on day one.