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Why you should vote for Bongbong Marcos

Why you should vote for Bongbong Marcos

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Election fever has risen in the days leading up to the election on May 9, 2022. Around 67.5 million qualified Filipino voters are eager to vote for a new president, vice president, and other government officials.

Three presidentiables and their vice presidentiables held their final rally and miting de avance last night. Leni Robredo, Vice President, was in Ayala, Makati; Bongbong Marcos was in Pasay; and Isko Moreno was in Tondo, Manila.

Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., also known as Bongbong Marcos (BBM), is a Filipino politician who was a senator from 2010 to 2016. He is the second child and only son of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

In 1980, Marcos Jr., then 23, was elected vice governor of Ilocos Norte, running unopposed on behalf of his father’s Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party, which was ruling the Philippines under martial law at the time. Marcos was elected governor of Ilocos Norte in 1983 and served in that capacity until his family was ousted from power by the People Power Revolution and fled into exile in Hawaii in February 1986.

From 1992 to 1995, Marcos was elected to the 2nd congressional district of Ilocos Norte. During his tenure, Marcos authored 29 House bills and co-authored 90 others, including those that led to the establishment of the Department of Energy and the National Youth Commission. In October 1992, he led a delegation of ten representatives to the Philippines’ first sports summit, held in Baguio City.

In 1998, Marcos ran for and was re-elected governor of Ilocos Norte. After nine years, he returned to his previous position as a representative from 2007 to 2010. He was then appointed as the House of Representatives’ deputy minority leader. The Philippine Archipelagic Baselines Law, or Republic Act No. 9522, was one of the important pieces of legislation he authored during this term. He also advocated for Republic Act No. 9502 (Universally Accessible, Cheaper, and High-Quality Medicines Act), which was passed in 2009.

Marcos served as a senator from 2010 to 2016 under the Nacionalista Party. He introduced 34 Senate bills during the 15th Congress (2010–2013). He also co-authored 17 bills, seven of which became law, including the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act, whose principal author was Senator Vicente Sotto III, the Cybercrime Prevention Act, whose principal author was Senator Edgardo Angara, and the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons and National Health Insurance Acts, both of which were primarily authored by Senator Loren Legarda.

Marcos introduced 52 bills in the 16th Congress (2013–2016), 28 of which were reintroduced from the 15th Congress. On October 3, 2013, Senate Bill 1186, which sought the postponement of the 2013 Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, was enacted as Republic Act 10632. He also co-authored four Senate bills. One of them, Senate Bill 712, authored primarily by Ralph Recto, became Republic Act 10645, the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.

In 2014, Bongbong Marcos was implicated by Janet Lim Napoles and Benhur Luy in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Pork Barrel scam and in 2016, he was also sued for plunder for funneling 205 million of his PDAF via 9 special allotment release orders (SARO) to the following bogus foundations from October 2011 to January 2013.

Marcos announced his candidacy for vice president of the Philippines in the 2016 general election on his website on October 5, 2015, stating, “I have decided to run for vice president in the May 2016 elections.” Marcos ran as an independent candidate.

Marcos was defeated by Camarines Sur representative Leni Robredo by a margin of 263,473 votes and 0.64%. Marcos challenged the election results, filing an electoral protest against Robredo on June 29, 2016, the day before her inauguration.

Marcos announced in 2021 that he will run for President of the Philippines under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas in the upcoming 2022 election (PFP)

Marcos officially launched his presidential campaign in the Philippines on October 5, 2021, with a video post on Facebook. On November 16, Marcos announced Sara Duterte, daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte and mayor of Davao City, as his running mate.

Marcos has consistently maintained a large lead in presidential polls in the months leading up to the May 2022 election; he is the first presidential candidate in the country to achieve poll ratings of more than 50% from Pulse Asia Research, Inc.’s polls since it began polling in 1999. His decision to skip all but one presidential debate during the campaign season has been widely criticized.

Petitions were filed requesting that Marcos be barred from running in the election. The last petition seeking to disqualify Marcos was dismissed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in April for lack of merit.

Marcos maintained his lead in Pulse Asia’s presidential opinion poll one week before the election. The pollster stated on its website that 56% of Filipinos would vote for the former senator. His rating in April remained unchanged from the previous month.

The Iglesia Ni Cristo formally endorsed Marcos and Duterte as their candidates for the May 9 national election on May 3. The INC’s endorsement is one of the most anticipated in the upcoming May elections. When voting as a block, the INC has an estimated command vote of 3 million.

*This is not a campaign endorsement. This is a three-part profile piece (Leni Robredo, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and Isko Moreno) to help you choose your Presidential candidate for the election on May 9, 2022.

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