For a noisy minority of Filipinos, the simple fact of another Ferdinand Marcos in the presidential palace is horrifying
Republic of the Philippines, established after the Americans booted out the Spanish, lasted just over two years. The second, under Japanese rule during the second world war, did not even make it that long. The third was created at the country’s independence from the United States in 1946 and survived until 1973, by when, had declared martial law.
But forgetting is not all new, nor all social-media magic. Filipinos were forgetting as early as 1995, barely a decade after Marcos senior was deposed. In May 1986, three months after the revolution, 41% of those surveyed by Social Weather Stations, a respected pollster, thought he had been “true to the duties of a patriotic president”. By October 1995 the number was 57%. In 1986, 44% agreed that he was a “severe, brutal or oppressive president”, and the same proportion disagreed.
Yet space for criticism is already being constricted. On June 23rd the telecoms regulator clamped down on the sale of big chunks of airtime by broadcasters, something often used by political actors. A few days earlier Solita “Winnie” Monsod, a prominent columnist who is no fan of Bongbong , was fired by her newspaper on the ground that she sits on the board of Rappler, a rabble-rousing news website whose co-founder won the Nobel Peace prize in 2021.
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