THE PHILIPPINES’ oldest political party headed by a billionaire has endorsed the son and namesake of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos for president, saying it believed in his call for unity, which has been criticized for lack of substance. READ:
“We believe that Bongbong and Inday Sara’s message of unity is crucial in binding our country together and inspiring our people as we rebuild not only from the pandemic but also from the political chasm that divides us,” Filipino billionaire and Nacionalista Party President Manuel B. Villar, Jr. said in a statement on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a faction of the ruling PDP-Laban said its chairman, President Rodrigo R. Duterte, would join Mr. Marcos and Ms. Carpio in a campaign sortie in Cebu province on March 31. “Indeed, unity is what will hold our country together as we look ahead into the future of making us, Filipinos, world class citizens with nation-building as our ultimate collective goal,” he said in statement.The 64-year-old Marcos, Jr., who is leading in presidential opinion polls, won a Senate seat under the party in 2010. He also ran for vice-president and lost under the party in 2016. He moved to the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas in October before announcing his presidential ambition.
Mr. Villar’s endorsement comes as ranking officials of mainstream political parties change their strategies at the last minute. Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson has left Partido Reporma, which is now headed by a former administration ally, after it endorsed opposition candidate Vice-President Maria Leonor “Leni” G. Robredo for president.
Ms. Robredo will have to beat Mr. Marcos again, which some see as a rerun of the 1986 snap elections, when widow Corazon C. Aquino was widely believed to have crushed the dictator. That year, a popular street uprising toppled the Marcos regime and sent him and his family into self-exile in the United States.
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