MANILA: Ferdinand Marcos Jr clinched a stunning runaway victory in the Philippines' presidential election on Monday (May 9) in the first win by a majority since a 1986 revolution that toppled his late father's two-decade dictatorship.
An unofficial tally showed Marcos, popularly known as "Bongbong", had surpassed the 27.5 million votes needed for a majority, setting the stage for a once unthinkable return to rule of the Marcos family, 36 years after its humiliating retreat into exile during a "people power" uprising.....
His six-year presidency is expected to provide continuity from outgoing leader Rodrigo Duterte, whose ruthless, strongman approach proved popular and helped him to consolidate power rapidly.
Analysts expect Marcos to focus on completing Duterte's multi-billion-dollar infrastructure upgrade and to seek close ties with China, but some say existing problems of corruption and nepotism in the Philippines could worsen.
A major boon for Marcos was him securing the president's daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, as his running mate, tapping her father's vast support and helping Marcos to make inroads in new voter territory. The unofficial count showed Duterte-Carpio had won the vice presidency with more than triple the votes of her nearest opponent. CNA
Bongbong Marcos is the new President of the Philippines. The Americans must be very disappointed. The anti American govt of Duterte was thought to be shortlived, a wild card that could not last pass Duterte. The Americans were hoping that with the end of Duterte's term, everything would be back to normal and they could treat the Philippines as their colony again to do their biddings, even to start a war with China, turning the Philippines into another tragedy like Ukraine. The Americans must have all their evil schemes hatched and ready for execution once Duterte is out of the way.
Who could have imagined that there could be another President that would share the thinking and policies of Duterte in a country that has so many pro American elements, especially in the military and foreign ministry? Who could imagine that the ordinary Filipinos would not care a hoot about their former colonial masters and would want the same kind of policies to continue without becoming another stooge of the Americans? All the pro American candidates were swept away into the deep blue sea, amazing.
Bongbong's victory came with a Vice President in Sara Duterte, the daughter of America's nemesis, outgoing President Duterte. The Filipinos can look forward for more continuity in its national policies in favour of growth, economic development and infrastructure building instead of instability, tension, war and corruption. Duterte served with honour, well loved and respected and supported by the Filipinos, and left behind a legacy of an honest and pro Filipino govt, peace and stability and pro development. For sure Clark and Subic bases would not be occupied by the Americans again.
Duterte has survived his full terms of 6 years without being assassinated. There were threats and attempts on his life. Would the same threats be there against Bongbong? Would the Americans lose their patience now that they have to wait another 6 years for a pro American President? The 6 years of Duterte must have been very frustrating to the Americans and those Filipinos that would like to be a stooge of the Americans. Another 6 years of the same could be just too long to wait when the Americans already have so many grave plans and roles worked out in pursuit of American dominance and hegemony in South East Asia. There are already attempts to smear Bongbong by dragging out the past of his father's rule to undermine him.
Bongbong is not going to be another Benigno Aquino III, to be puppet on a string of the Americans. There is a streak of toughness and independence in the blood of Bongbong, the same DNA as his father. Bongbong Marcos is not going to be a stooge of the Americans for sure. If all goes on well, the Filipino economy would be up and roaring with more investments and infrastructure projects in the pipeline for the good of the Philippines.
This is a sign that the American Empire is destined to lose its position of influence in the region. The Philippines is as good as in their pocket but somehow keeps slipping away. So close yet so far. The fear of a pro American stooge as President to remove all the good works of Duterte has been put to rest, a big relief for the Filipinos. Bongbong would be looking after the interest of the Philippines and the Filipinos, not the interest of the Americans.
ReplyDeleteThe treachery of the Anglo-Saxon Americans. They promised the Filippinos independence if they were to help the US to fight and drive out the Spanish imperialist. However, after defeating Spain in December 1898, the Americans reneged on their promise and refused to grant independence to the Filippinos. Their spurious excuse was that the Filippinos were uncivilise and were unfit for self-government for they would have anarchy and misrule.
The Filippinos then rose up in revolt under the great leadership of Emilio Aguinaldo. However, the rebellion was crushed with great brutality by 80,000 American troops. After crushing the rebellion the Americans carried out horrible atrocities against the Filippino civilians who also continued to resist American imperialism.
It took about four years for the American imperialist to crush the rebellion resulting in the brutal killings of over three hundred thousand Filippino resistant fighters and over three million deaths of Filippino civilians both from US genocide and from disease.
The Filippinos will never forget the violent and brutal occupation of the Philippines by the evil American imperialist. The diabolical and abominable American occupation lasted from 1898 to December, 1946 after the end of the Second World War.
Southernglory1 Aka Yang Rong Nan
There are still many hardcore USA supporters within the Philippine Military and Ruling Establishment and Bongbong Marcos Jr job is not going to be easy to steer his vision of moving closer to China. Long years of indoctrination under the USA have conditioned Filipinos to still harbour the fabricated safety and clinging on to the coattails of the USA. Who is threatening the Philippines all those years? Will that mental handicap now end?
ReplyDeleteDuterte and now Marcos Jr have seen the advantage economically of closer ties with China, particularly on the economic front and infrastructure developments taking shape over the influx of Chinese investments. Of course there will always be people with ulterior motives who will disagree, as in every country. The other factor has been the claims against the Marcos family of some US$2 billion (I hope I am correct) in Hawaiian Court and the contempt of court ruling against Imelda Marcos for ignoring the claims. These have hardened the resolve of the new Philippine leader and his running mate to carry on the vision of Rodrigo Duterte, who indeed was fortunate to have survived the CIA, as many have feared for his safety culminating in his dangerous call to the USA to move it's military out of the Philippines. Under life threatening moves obviously, he did not carry out his threat.
For a long time I have been wondering why the USA did not make use of the Philippine as it's base in ASEAN and instead opted for Singapore. In Asia too, the USA could not find a base safe enough to house their destablisation and regime changing activities to counter China. These three countries, Japan, South Korea and Philippines were considered but each posed problems. We never know how it will develop with Singapore alone taking the plunge into the unknown, among all other ASEAN countries, by assuming it's widely touted support of the USA in Ukraine against the Russians.
And with China the next target of the USA taking shape, the looks of it does not augers well for Singapore to take sides.
The Americans thought they could sit it out and wait for Duterte to pass on. Duterte was much more easier to take him out as he was alone.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the forces for change and development are strengthening. The Military and foreign office are the only two organisations that have been bought by the Americans with many military officers trained in the US.
The masses are still poor and did not get any benefits from the Americans other than the sleaze operators. The Filipinos wanted the good life through economic development, not wasting time and resources on weapons and wars.
Now both the President and Vice President are pro development and nationalist and not easily corrupted by the Americans. And the Americans cannot knock out both the President and Vice President as it would be too obvious. And both are very popular with the Filipinos.
They should strengthen the position of pro growth and development minded Filipinos.
The Philippines is like the Indonesia, where the forces of corruption are weakening and good leaders that are nationalist, not corrupt and pro development are getting stronger and well supported by their people. They are not easily bribed by the Americans to do their bidding.
ReplyDeleteI wish that the Philippines will not go the Way of Sri Lanka.
Wish that Marcos Junior has learnt from his parents that wealth of the Family at the Expense of the People does not
benefit the Family in their health, longevity happiness and repute, quite the Contrary in fact.
Like lndonesia under the Wise President
Bangbang Yuddyono, the Philippines is well-run by President
Duterte. Duterte takes on the Drug Menace head-on and
rids the Philippines of one of
its' greatest socisl problem. His wise move to develop the Philippines with the Help of China is another crediy to his rule of the Nation.
As l said,
If President Marcos Junior has gotten himself enlightened from the History of his Father and works for the People, the Philippinoes can live in much joy and happiness.
Benevoleny Rulers always benefits the People and the Nation.
Cheers.
ASEAN countries will need strong leaders. South Asia is now in turmoil because of weak and corrupted leaders, beset with infighting that makes those countries weak and easy for foreign elements to ferment chaos and protest. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are examples of countries with internal infighting that makes them easy target for fermenting regime changes. We are seeing the inevitable happenning.
ReplyDeleteThe motivation for the West to continue to make these countries weak is to enable them to install stooges after carrying out regime changes, and they can then control and do what the West wants them to do. Ukraine is a very good example. Two countries under total control in Asia are Japan and South Korea.
Thankfully, and hopefully, the Philippine is still out of the hands of the evil manipulators and it can remain and retain it's freedom to choose whom it wants to deal with.
Discreet sources have indicated that the Philippines is thinking of carrying out a Solomon Island type of deal with China, which is having a security agreement with China in time. Suffice to say, there will be elements out to sabotage those ideals, internally and externally.
When the white savages lead, the world bleeds.
ReplyDeleteAs his presidential legacy, Marcos Jr. has vowed to sign a bilateral deal with China to settle the South China Sea issue. Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message to Marcos suggests that Beijing apparently senses an opportunity to reset the balance of relations with Manila. Conceivably, if Philippines and China enter into deeper cooperation as well as finally resolve their South China Sea issue, it will shake up the Asia-Pacific, undermine the US efforts to militarise the southeast Asian region and render hopelessly obsolete Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy itself.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, Philippines, which was the US’ closest regional ally historically, is giving a miss to the Washington Summit, pleading the political transition in Manila. During his entire 6-year presidency, Duterte never once visited the US.
Duterte is a street smart guy. He would not be so stupid to visit the US to allow the Americans to drug him or create some opportunity to blackmail him. Once he is there he would be at the mercy of the Americans to do what they want with him. Maybe inject some slow killing drugs to kill him over a period of time.
ReplyDeleteHope those Asean leaders that went for the dinner did not compromise themselves or be injected with some drugs to control them. The dinner is not so innocent. There is no free lunch.
Let's observe the change in behaviour of these Asean leaders after the trip.
Hahaha
ReplyDeleteThey may try a false flag by poisoning him and blame it on Putin or Xi. Duterte already knew that he may not survive the CIA, so why would he take the risk.
When one gets invited to the White House, one thing is certain. There will be lots of Yoga or twisting, particularly the arms. They do not get invited just to taste the peanuts.
Yeah, Let's observe the changes in the behavior of those ASEAN leaders after the trip.