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Disgraced Marcos dictatorship clawing back to power in Philippines

Disgraced Marcos dictatorship clawing back to power in Philippines

Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, the only son of the infamous Philippine dictator, is filing a protest over the vice-presidential election he lost to Leni Robredo in May last year.

Robredo polled 263,473 more votes than Marcos.
In his complaint, Marcos alleges that the automated counting was manipulated to reduce his votes. Yet he has gathered no evidence of the alleged fraud, preferring instead to cite his lead in pre-election voter surveys. Since the election, Marcos has maintained the pressure on Robredo by holding protest rallies to denounce her as 
a nonentity and a pretender to the high 
position she now occupies.
Then, opposition politician Robredo was hit with the threat of impeachment from several allies of Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, who cited an “impeachable offence” she allegedly committed for taking a position against Duterte’s so-called war on drugs. The drugs war has led to thousands of extrajudicial killings by police officers and others acting under the tacit encouragement of the government. Duterte is an admirer of the Marcoses, who financially backed his own campaign for president.
Here, today, Filipinos are witnesses to the spectacle of a disgraced dictatorship clawing its way back to power.
Nesty Reyes
Philippine Daily Inquirer/ ANN

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