The son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is the frontrunner in opinion polls and is favored reclaim the presidency for the Marcos family.
Her infamous 3,000-pair shoe collection — discovered when protesters stormed the presidential palace in the 1986 uprising — is now housed in a Manila museum. But today, public disillusionment with successive democratic governments seems to have displaced the excesses of the Marcos regime in public consciousness.The Marcos name today is ringed by a kind of romanticism, a vintage it has acquired from the days when, as the narrative goes, the Philippines used to matter in world affairs.
He often invokes his family name at campaign rallies but remains wary of exposing himself to the vagaries of political debate. released this week, the late dictator's son polled at 56% while support for Robredo was at a distant 23%.The Philippines was a traditional military ally of the U.S. but after his presidential election in 2016, Duterte moved closer to China and declared hisAddressing a virtual forum in March, Marcos Jr. said the Philippines shared a"special relationship" with the U.S.
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