Makinig, Matuto, Kumilos

The coalition's platforms and policies are based on Project Makinig, a nationwide listening campaign conducted by 9,800 volunteers that generated 118,000 conversations.[6] Project Makinig aimed to find out the issues most relevant to Filipino voters, to form the basis for the messaging, strategy, and platform of the coalition.[7] Otso Diretso's 8-point slate platform address the following issues: "poverty alleviation, a more robust economy with more jobs and lower prices of goods, a peaceful home and nation for the benefit of Filipino children, improved education and free college tuition that will lead to jobs, fair wages and profit for laborers, farmers, and fishermen, expanded rights for senior citizens and PWDs, national security, and judicial reform."[8] Senator Francis Pangilinan serves as Otso Diretso's campaign manager.[9]