Country or personal gain? Congress has to make a choice

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s call for Congress to prioritize four explosive reform measures—the Anti-Dynasty Bill, the Independent People’s Commission Act, the Party-list System Reform Act, and the CADENA transparency law—marks one of the boldest rhetorical strikes against the country’s entrenched political order.

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If passed together, these measures would not simply tweak the system; they would trigger the most dramatic political reengineering in the post-EDSA era. For the first time, the Philippines stands on the brink of a genuine structural reset—one that could finally crack the iron grip of dynasties; dismantle the current practice in the party-list system where the marginalized are further marginalized by the rich and the dynasties; and institute genuine transparency into the murky hallways of government spending.

But vision without execution is nothing. The question now is whether the government, the private sector, and ordinary citizens are willing to break the very system many have learned to live with-even benefit from-to build something better for the sake of the country and every Filipino.