Marcos jr expects historic win in elections

MANILA: The son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters on Saturday on the last day of presidential election campaigning, as polls showed him heading towards a landslide win.

Victory in today’s election that secures a six-year term as president would cap a decades-long effort to rehabilitate the Marcos legacy after the patriarch was deposed and the disgraced clan chased into exile in the US.

But the prospect of Ferdinand Marcos jr moving back into the presidential palace has alarmed rights activists, church leaders and political analysts who fear he could rule “without constraint”.

The Marcoses’ remarkable return from pariahs to the peak of political power has been fuelled by public anger over corruption and poverty that persisted under the governments that followed the dictatorship. |