It will be a regular working day in government and private offices as well as school classes when President Noynoy Aquino delivers his first State-of-the-Nation Address (SoNA) on Monday, July 26.

Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda also insisted that the regular schedule was not meant to limit the movement of rallyists of SoNA.

“It’s a working day because we are not concerned with the rallyists. The administration has just started so there is no reason for our friends to hold rallies. That’s the reason why there is work that day,” he told reporters in the Palace.

Lacierda said the Palace would also leave to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to decide whether they would allow rallyists to go near Batasan complex.

President Aquino has continued preparations for his first SONA address before the joint session of Congress. The President held two lengthy Cabinet meetings this week to get inputs for his speech, which is expected to be straightforward and no-frills address.

Lacierda said the President is also likely to present the present condition of the nation, including the problems inherited from the past government.

Meanwhile, President Aquino held two lengthy meetings this week to get inputs for his speech which is expected to be a straightforward and no-frills address.

Lacierda said the President is also likely to present the present condition of the nation, including the problems inherited from the past government.

The President will also lay down his solutions, his legislative agenda, and other plans for the country when he delivers his SoNA, he added.

"The purpose of the SoNA is really to show the true state of the nation that was left by the past administration. This is the president's first SoNA so we're coming from a point of the previous administration," he said.

"Working from that, we are going to state the situation and then our proposed solutions," he added.

While some people may be helping craft the SoNA speech, Lacierda said it will be the President's own words in the end.