{"id":9121,"date":"2022-05-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2022-05-21T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:59:28","slug":"what-a-marcos-jr-presidency-in-the-philippines-means-for-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/what-a-marcos-jr-presidency-in-the-philippines-means-for-geopolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Marcos Jr presidency in the Philippines means for geopolitics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ADELE WEBB  |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The offspring of strongmen were the clear winners in last Monday\u2019s Philippine national election. Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d&nbsp;Marcos Jr&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ph.rappler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">set to follow in the footsteps<\/a>&nbsp;of his father, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and expected to be sworn in as President in July. Next to him will be the new Vice President Sara Duterte, daughter of departing president Rodrigo Duterte, whose championing of a police killing spree of alleged drug addicts has attracted international notoriety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marcos-Duterte ticket was undoubtedly central to the outcome. Running separately in the presidential race, as originally looked likely, would have left open a window of possibility of victory for outgoing VP and liberal presidential candidate Leni Robredo. As it was, Robredo\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-61318519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pink campaign<\/a>&nbsp;placed a distant second, winning fewer than half of the Marcos vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marcos family\u2019s return to Malaca\u00f1ang Palace is shocking, but not surprising. For three decades the family have been taking advantage of the information vacuums about the martial law period left by uncritical history textbooks. A carefully crafted and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6174739\/bongbong-marcos-election-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actively disseminated folklore<\/a>&nbsp;about a golden era under Marcos Sr filled the void. 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