Vice presidential aspirant Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said he did not consider himself wealthy compared to other politicians.
“I don’t consider myself … I know a lot of wealthy people and we are nowhere near,” Marcos said in an INQ&A Live interview.
“I suppose in the Philippine setting, I can say that I’m better off than more Filipinos, luckily for me,” he added.
Amid criticisms of his family’s ill-gotten wealth, the son and namesake of the late dictator said his money came from the investment and work that he and his wife had made in the past years.
“Where do my money come from? There have been questions raised … These are investments that we have made … Most of it right now are from the work that I have done in the last few years,” Marcos said, adding he was able to recover assets that are “mine to begin with.”
“In the political setting, I’m a pauper compared to the others,” he said, noting that other candidates had bigger campaign expenditure.
Marcos is the front-runner in preference surveys for the vice presidential race less than two weeks before the national election.
His family was said to have amassed huge amounts of wealth during a regime that lasted for decades. RC