“President-elect Marcos would need the cooperation and help of everybody. We must give it to him,” Duterte said in his fourth-to-last Talk to the People.
The Philippines' position of No. 33 out of 121 nations in Nikkei Asia's Recovery Index report for May 2022 shows that the country is on its way to pandemic recovery.
Incoming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met separately with ambassadors from Italy and different Asean countries, during which they discussed expanded cooperation between the Philippines and their respective countries.