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Candidates and their supporters have been going around the Philippines to share their platforms, convincing the unsure, and trying to win as many votes as they can.
At exactly 12:01 a.m., May 8, 2022, all forms and semblance of campaigning must stop. The miting de avance today of various candidates for national and local posts must also end at that time, formally concluding the 150-day election period that started in Jan. 9. How time flies! And what a ride it h
It is difficult to gloss over the record of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, a man with film-star looks who manipulated the political machine, plundered the state to the tune of US$10 billion, and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his opponents and the torture of tens of thousands more. His wife, Imelda, with her shoe collection not to mention 888 handbags, 71 pairs of sunglasses and 65 parasols became a byword for autocratic excess.
Yet, less than four decades after the elder Marcos was forced to flee Manila in a US Air Force plane, his son