- MITCH M. LIPA
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia will attend the last State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte online.
Leonardia, as national president of the League of Cities of the Philippines, was invited by the Senate and the House of Representatives to personally attend the SONA at the Batasang Pambansa on July 26.
“I am honored by the invitation, but while I would like to attend physically, I would prefer to do it virtually instead due to COVID-related concerns here which need my personal attention,” he added.
Leonardia had personally attended Duterte’s SONA from 2016 to 2019.
In September 2019, Duterte appointed Leonardia as the lone representative of the local government units in the country to the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council. — MML
