Noy to continue laying foundations of good governance – Palace

MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino would spend his last two years in office laying the foundations of good governance and equitable growth, Malacañang said yesterday.

“We would like to have inclusive growth for all. We would like to make sure that as we leave, as the President leaves… after 2016, he has laid the foundation for an economy that will provide equitable growth,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told radio dzRB yesterday.

“What we want to instill among our countrymen is that let’s not go back anymore to where we were before. We have elevated the level of governance. People expect better from government,” he added.

Lacierda said among the achievements of the Aquino administration is the change in the public’s attitude toward government.

“Despite the many issues that surround and that we have to handle on a regular basis, the Filipinos can expect the standard of governance has risen and that they should not allow the standard to go down again,” he said.

He said the public could expect more achievements in the remaining two years of the administration, adding that it would be up to the historians and political analysts to decide its “single biggest achievement.”

Critics of the Aquino administration claim the President is not doing enough to address key issues such as rising prices and poverty. They even coined the term “Noynoying” to denote what they described as Aquino’s inaction on pressing issues.