MANILA, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would unveil a 10-point agenda for her next six-year presidency in a 15-minute inauguration speech on Wednesday, agovernment official said Tuesday.
Press Secretary Milton Alingod told reporters that the President would deliver "memorable lines" in her speech at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila city.
He said that the 10-point agenda of Arroyo's future administration would include housing programs, clean water, cheaper electricity rates, cheaper education, automated elections and a call for unity and reconciliation.
In the speech, the president would also praise the opposition "for the good fight" in a bid to seek reconciliation after disputesduring the election period, Alingod added.
Arroyo assumed the presidency after a bloodless, military-backed popular revolt eased out the elected leader, Joseph Estrada,amid a corruption scandal in January 2001. She won the second termof six years after Congress proclaimed her victory in the May 10 election over opposition rival Fernando Poe Jr. last week.
During the campaign, Arroyo promised to create 6 million jobs in six years, reduce costs of power and medicines, triple the loans for small business owners, build more school buildings and provide scholarships to Filipino families, and bring water supply to all communities.
In her first 100 days in office, the president said that she would also continue to reach out to her political opposition and win their help to rebuild the nation following the widely disputedpolls.
The president, who won the vice presidential campaign in the 1998 elections with history-recorded 13 million votes, received morn the 13 million votes in the May 10 elections. Enditem
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