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Duterte Says He Takes Responsibility for Philippine Drug War
President Rodrigo Duterte was defiant in Senate testimony about the years of bloodshed that left thousands dead. The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte< ...
New York Times
6 days ago
Philippines ex-President Duterte says he kept a ‘death squad’ as mayor
Former Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte has told a Senate inquiry that he had maintained a “death squad” of gangsters to kill other criminals when he was the mayor of a ...
Al Jazeera
6 days ago
Jan 29, 2024 · Former President Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Fernando Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office, bringing into the open a long-rumored split between the two.
Oct 18, 2024 · Philippine vice-president Sara Duterte accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of incompetence and a lack of leadership in a scathing attack on Friday that showed the deepening rift between the...
Oct 1, 2024 · The May 2025 election will be a litmus test of Mr Marcos’ popularity and a chance to consolidate power and groom a successor, which the influential Duterte family has signalled that it is...
- The Counterrevolution
- Enabling Factors
- The Road Ahead
The impending return of the Marcoses to the Malacañang is a result of the family’s decades-long efforts for a “counterrevolution”, namely overturning the 1986 “People Power” revolt that toppled their dynastic dictatorship. Indeed, Marcoses have been working against reformist forces and slowly inching towards regaining power in the Philippines since...
Marcos Jr’s election victory, however, was not in any way inevitable. Perhaps the single biggest contributor to his unprecedented electoral success was widely popular presidential daughter Sara Duterte’s decision to drop out of the presidential race. All pre-election surveys showed that the longtime Davao Mayor was a shoo-in for the presidency had ...
The full restoration of the Marcoses to power, however, shouldn’t be a cause for total despair for the opposition. Despite losing the race, Robredo managed to spawn a new “Pink Movement”, which helped her garner close to 15 million votes, a 50 percent surge compared to the results obtained by former liberal opposition leader Manuel Roxas in the 201...
The alliance between Sara Duterte and Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr won them the election in 2022. With his signature bombast, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd of...
Oct 1, 2024 · MANILA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Registration gets underway in the Philippines on Tuesday for one of the world's biggest midterm elections, headlined by what could be a bitter proxy battle between...
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr has been sworn in as the Philippine president in a ceremony in Manila, succeeding the outgoing leader Rodrigo Duterte. His inauguration marks a stunning comeback for the...
