Duterte, a brutish, unpleasant goon from the nation's south, has repeatedly voiced his murderous disdain for the country's poor. If one visits these workers in their humble dwellings in Manila today, they say that Duterte really worked for their well-being during his presidency. Back then he recruited many of the approximately ten million "Overseas Filipino Workers" (OFWs) who work worldwide on container ships, as maids and valets, teachers and contractors, in fishing, gastronomy and the hotel industry. Rodrigo Duterte had followed a pattern similar to that of his daughter before he was elected president in 2016. The ex-world boxing champion came in third in this presidential race, because he gravely underestimated the repercussions of his all-too biblical condemnations of same-sex love. These groups, and effectively their families, had turned their backs on Manny Pacquiao last year. The Filipino LGBTQ community was always represented at her events, sometimes even creating a good atmosphere wearing drag outfits. Duterte-Carpio campaigned for the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people. Sara Duterte-Carpio, on the other hand, at least seemed to somewhat understand the importance of addressing individual groups with a program tailored to them. He simply wiggled his way through the months leading up to the election on a day by day basis, depending solely on empty slogans. never even presented a real program, and perhaps never even bothered to try. Anyone who attended one of their rallies, which are part of everyday political life in the country, could hear their slogans being drummed into the crowd to the tune of "We will rock you". But Marco's son and Duterte's daughter organized the election campaign together as a so-called Uniteam. The election of President and Vice President is done separately in the Philippines. That, too, gave him a boost from the voters. This time he allied himself with Duterte's daughter, 43-year-old Sara Duterte-Carpio, running alongside Marcos for vice president. In the last elections, he lost to Leni Robredo, who took the seat of vice president under Rodrigo Duterte. himself has also been involved in politics for a long time. Bongbong's older sister Imee somehow became a senator. Since her very quiet return to the Philippines in 1991, Imelda Marcos, now 92, has fought numerous lawsuits regarding the return of hundreds of millions of dollars - and the family's reputation. The results have not yet been fully counted, but the official bodies already consider the election to be legitimate, and Robredo's team has not contested it so far. The other candidates, all more capable than Bongbong by a long shot, ended up far behind. Twice as many as Robredo, his biggest and most successful rival, who garnered just under 15 million votes. has now garnered more than 31 million votes. Yet despite his ghostly demeanor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. refused to go into direct confrontation with any of his competitors, and refused to answer tough questions from journalists - presumably because he had nothing of value to say whatsoever, and because his team was concerned that onstage, in the thick of the fight, faced with a duty to present coherent sentences, he would quickly paint himself as utterly cringeworthy and painfully inferior to the much more competent Leni Robredo. Another is that during the campaign, Marcos Jr. likely funded his campaign with money his parents plundered from their own country, just like the rest of his entire life.īut that's just one of the many bizarre aspects of this election. It has long been an open secret to many observers that Marcos Jr. To this day, a commission is searching for the approximately more than ten billion US dollars that the Marcos clan managed to get out of the country before they themselves fled last-minute (literally) by helicopter into the safety of exile in Honolulu, where the corrupt despot died in 1989. She's the wannabe royal with the world's largest shoe collection, he once led the country into martial law and quickly transformed himself from democratic president to brutal dictator, killing and torturing tens of thousands. For those now wondering, Ferdinand Marcos, where have I heard that name before?: The young Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, who is already 64 years old himself, is the son of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos senior. The next president is Ferdinand Marcos, and well over 50 percent of voters have voted for him. A ghost has been elected in the Philippines.
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