Marcos Jr. wins Philippine presidency, beats Duterte

[Kamaji]

Marcos Jr. wins Philippine presidency, beats Duterte

By Associated Press
May 10, 2022

The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986 “People Power” pro-democracy revolt that ousted his father.

Marcos Jr. had more than 30.8 million votes in the unofficial results with more than 97% of the votes tabulated as of Tuesday afternoon. His nearest challenger, Vice President Leni Robredo, a champion of human rights, had 14.7 million votes in Monday’s election, and boxing great Manny Pacquiao appeared to have the third highest total with 3.5 million.

His running mate, Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing leader and mayor of southern Davao city, had a formidable lead in the separate vice presidential race.

The alliance of the scions of two authoritarian leaders combined the voting power of their families’ political strongholds in the north and south but compounded worries of human rights activists.

Dozens of anti-Marcos protesters rallied at the Commission on Elections, blaming the agency for the breakdown of vote-counting machines and other issues that prevented people from casting their votes. Elections officials said the impact of the malfunctioning machines was minimal.

A group of activists, who suffered under the dictatorship said it was enraged by Marcos’s apparent victory and would oppose it.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/marcos-jr-wins-philippine-presidency-beats-duterte/

[Kamaji]

Back to the Future, with a dystopian Alice-in-Wonderland twist.

[GtHawk]

Back to the Future, with a dystopian Alice-in-Wonderland twist.

Well usually when a people think they have elected someone different than the dictators of the past they find out, like with Duterte, that they what they got was a lunatic just as bad or worse than the old dictator. Kind of like here where people thought they were electing someone different than Trump and shit howdy they sure did, no more mean tweets, no more America first, goodbye to the respect for America that was being rebuilt or fear of America by her enemies......what they got and forced on all the rest was lunacy, incompetence and an almost evil desire to destroy the republic.

Long winded but bottom line I think the people of the Philippines had a huge case of buyers remorse, just like us.

[Smokin Joe]

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss..



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