Marcos clan wins big in mid-term polls
The family of dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in the mid-term elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant 83-year-old wife leading the clan’s political charge.
The family of dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in the mid-term elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant 83-year-old wife leading the clan’s political charge.
From Imelda Marcos to Manny Pacquiao, familiar names of Philippine political clans and celebrities dominated the ballots for Monday’s congressional and local elections, which will gauge popular support for the President’s anti-corruption drive and other reforms.
Twenty-seven years after a public revolt ousted her dictator husband, Imelda Marcos is the Philippines’ ultimate political survivor: She dazzled voters with her bouffant hairstyle, oversized jewelry and big talk on the campaign trail this week bidding to keep her seat in Congress.
It is close to midnight and Imelda Marcos is dancing in a trademark pink butterfly gown at a small town fiesta with adoring voters who still revere her dead dictator husband.
Twenty-seven years after the ouster of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the public will finally get to see the fabulous jewelry collection amassed by Marcos’ wife, now Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, during the 20 years they held power.
Former First Lady Imelda Marcos’ jewelry from the so-called Hawaii collection and the contested 18.5-hectare prime commercial property Payanig sa Pasig are among the P18.2 billion worth of recovered ill-gotten assets of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) plans to sell within the next two years.
When the phone rang one day in May 1979, he was not to know that he would be caught in one of the most tumultuous chapters in Philippine history.
There’s no reason for the Presidential Commission on Good Government to stop going after Marcos’ alleged ill-gotten wealth unless it’s admitting it could no longer prove a claim against the late dictator’s estate, Sen. Francis Escudero told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Wednesday.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government has outlived its purpose and it’s about time the Department of Justice take over from where it would leave, Sen. Joker Arroyo said on Wednesday.
The Philippine government is to wind down a near-30-year hunt for the embezzled wealth of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, with more than half the supposed $10-billion fortune still missing, the man in charge of the search said.
Year 2012 is now almost out the door. Was it an undiluted “Annus Horribilis” or “Year of Horror”?
The US Court of Appeals’ $350-million contempt judgment against the heirs of Ferdinand Marcos will not be the end of human rights victims’ claims against the dictator’s estate, according to the late former President’s son and namesake, Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and his mother, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, are in danger of losing more of their assets stashed in the Philippines, the US and other countries after the US Court of Appeals upheld a $353-million contempt ruling against them and the Marcos estate.
