Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the past due dictator, waves after casting his vote within the 2022 nationwide elections at Mariano Marcos Memorial Basic College in Batac, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, Might 9, 2022.
Eloisa Lopez | Reuters
An unofficial vote rely within the Philippines presidential election confirmed an enormous early lead for Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the infamous past due dictator who dominated the rustic for two decades.
Marcos had 15.3 million votes, greater than double the choice of his nearest rival, Vice President Leni Robredo, with 46.9% the choice of eligible ballots counted, in step with an unofficial rely through the Fee on Elections (COMELEC) .
The large early lead raises the possibility of a once-unthinkable go back to the guideline of the Marcos circle of relatives, 36 years after its patriarch’s overthrow in a “folks energy” revolution and his circle of relatives’s humiliating retreat into exile.
It intently tracks the result of all opinion polls this 12 months, which confirmed Marcos, a former senator and congressman, with an enormous merit over Robredo, who’s allied with the motion that toppled the Marcos dictatorship in 1986.
Regardless of its fall from grace, the Marcos circle of relatives returned from exile within the Nineties and has since been a formidable pressure in politics, keeping its affect with huge wealth and far-reaching connections.
The vote was once additionally an opportunity for Marcos to avenge his loss to Robredo within the 2016 vice presidential election, a slender defeat through simply 200,000 votes that he sought unsuccessfully to overturn.
Marcos has introduced no actual coverage platform however his presidency is predicted to supply continuity with outgoing chief Rodrigo Duterte, whose ruthless, strongman means proved standard and helped him to consolidate energy impulsively.
