Philippine election 2022

In a polarising campaign between frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator, and a human rights lawyer who has vowed to fight old, ...

The counting of votes will begin as soon as the polls shut, and the winner has previously been determined within hours. In a polarising campaign between frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator, and a human rights lawyer who has vowed to fight old, corrupt politics, polls in the Philippines opened on Monday to elect the country's next president. Philippines Election 2022: Voters streamed to polling stations on Monday, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable return to rule of a member of the Marcos family, 36 years after strongman Ferdinand Marcos was ousted in a "people power" uprising.

After seeing months of divisive campaigning, millions of Filipinos vote to choose President Rodrigo Duterte's successor.

About 65.7 million registered voters across the country cast their ballots to replace populist leader Rodrigo Duterte, who steps down after six years. For the ...

On that occasion Marcos Jr lost, despite leading in the polls for most of the race. Marcos Sr died in exile three years later, but his family returned in 1991 and became wealthy, influential politicians, with successive family members representing their dynastic stronghold of Ilocos Norte. As well as the lives of the people, every place in the country should be peaceful. Despite his record on human rights and the Covid-19 pandemic, which made the country's hunger crisis worse "For me, it's about addressing criminality, people's security, and the security of the country. "Our situation is not good now, the prices of goods are too high.

Updated at 5:53 a.m. ET on 2022-05-09. Philippine voters stood in long lines Monday to cast ballots in a general election that may sweep the son of a once ...

A peaceful people’s power revolt led to the Marcos family fleeing the country in 1986. Authorities believe Marcos and his wife plundered as much as U.S. $10 billion from the nation’s coffers. There were people inside the town hall in Datu Unsay –the grenade launchers were fired inside,” said Col. Jibin Bongcayao, a local police official. “We do not want the integrity of the elections questioned because that is when confusion arises. It’s because he’s part of a tandem. The Duterte-Marcos axis is winning big in this election.” Three village officials were killed when gunmen aboard two white vans strafed a polling place in Buluan, in Maguindanao province, a report from the 16th Military Intelligence Company said. That’s the solution; when the machines arrive, that’s the time we will insert it for the count. “Another Marcos is now the favorite, quite a big frontrunner to become the next president of the Philippines,” the analyst added. “We will just collect the ballots. Officials had yet to announce voter turnout figures. Presidential front-runner Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late Filipino dictator, appeared poised to return the Marcos family to the presidential palace for the first time in 36 years, according to opinion surveys in the months leading to the vote.

(Bloomberg) -- Polling centers in the Philippines have begun to close and vote counting is underway for a presidential race that could see Ferdinand ...

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Philippine voters streamed to polling stations on Monday, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable return to rule of a member of the Marcos family, ...

His daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, is tipped to win the vice presidency. The Marcos camp has denied running misinformation campaigns. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Around 18,000 posts, from the vice presidency, seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives to mayors, governors and councillors are also up for grabs.

MANILA -- Voters across the Philippines are casting their ballots to elect a new president, vice president and thousands of other representa.

Rappler reports the COMELEC chairman saying that voting hours can be extended to accommodate people who are within 30 meters of a polling precinct when voting closes at 7 p.m. 7:00 p.m. It's closing time at polling stations, though the election commission has said they can stay open for voters relatively close to the front of the line. More than 37 million, or 56% of the voting population, are in the 18-41 age range -- the country's largest-ever group of youth voters. Robredo trails with 8.3 million and Manny Pacquiao stands at 1.5 million. At one precinct in Quezon City, citizens faced a six- to seven-hour slog, and the line was still going for half a kilometer late in the day. Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao and Isko Moreno had each topped 1 million. Over the weekend, the candidates held massive final rallies. 5:30 p.m. The head of the election commission (COMELEC) says the elections have been relatively peaceful compared to the 2019 midterm polls. Sara Duterte, the daughter of outgoing and still-popular President Rodrigo Duterte, was the favorite to become vice president -- a position elected separately from the president. The polls opened at 6 a.m. and were to close at 7 p.m. local time. Polling in the run-up to election day showed two main contenders for the top job: Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator, and Leni Robredo, the incumbent vice president. MANILA -- Voters across the Philippines have cast their ballots to elect a new president, vice president and thousands of other representatives and officials.

As polling stations open across the country, the dictator's son seems set to be elected the country's 17th president.

As the leading political commentator Richard Javad Heydarian told Reuters, “The stakes are higher than any other election in recent years, with Marcos likely to overhaul the constitution to entrench his power if he wins, and Robredo in a position to prevent a Marcosian hegemony.” If Marcos wins by the landslide that voter preference surveys seem to suggest, it will mark the dizzying culmination of a years-long campaign by the family to reestablish itself after its shameful exile in the wake of the People Power uprising. But given the gulf separating her from Marcos, a massive late surge in support or record low turnout are the only means by which Robredo can win the presidency. No doubt many such questions will be asked and pondered if, as expected the younger Marcos succeeds his father as president. But since the early 1990s, the family has steadily rebuilt its political power. Eight other candidates, including former boxing star Manny Pacquiao, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, and former national police chief Panfilo Lacson lag far behind Marcos and Robredo in the polls.

Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator, waves after casting his vote in the 2022 national ...

A disillusioned segment of society looks back on the Marcos years as a golden era for the country. In 1986, the Philippines ousted the first Ferdinand Marcos after 21 years of authoritarian rule. For years, the Marcos family's massive theft was considered established fact. "He can even try to use it as a cover for clawing back ill-gotten wealth already recovered by the government." The historic election was marred by violence and malfunctioning vote counting machines. Amnesty International estimates that during the elder Marcos' two-decade reign — about half of which the nation spent under Marial Law — some 70,000 people were jailed, 34,000 tortured, and more than 3,000 killed.

MANILA — Millions headed to the polls early Monday to vote for a new Philippine president, with the late dictator's son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., ...

A public-interest lawyer and former congresswoman, she narrowly defeated Marcos for the vice presidency in 2016. They returned to the Philippines in the 1990s. She has been the prime target of disinformation operations and lags behind Marcos by 33 points. Marcos and his running mate, Sara Duterte-Carpio, Davao City mayor and daughter of the incumbent president, enjoy a significant lead over their opponents, according to the latest polls. The family fled to Hawaii, where they lived in exile, after the 1986 People Power revolution. Presidents serve only a single term and are elected separately from the vice president.

Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr and his running mate Sara Duterte, President Rodrigo Duterte's daughter, hold a commanding lead in opinion ...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is poised for a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election, bringing his family back to power in Manila 36 years after ...

His closest rival, Vice President Leni Robredo got 11.7 million votes, or 28.3%. With 76% of the election returns counted, the former senator won 24.6 million votes, or 59.4% of the total votes cast for president.

The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos takes a commanding lead in an unofficial vote count from a presidential election in the ...

"Fact can really be stranger than fiction. Temario Riviera, a former political science professor at the University of the Philippines, said that the Marcos victory represented the worst "concentration of dynastic political power in the country's political history". Mr Marcos Jr has served as a governor, congressman and senator, his sister, Imee, is currently a senator and his mother, Imelda — the influential power-broker and widow of the late dictator — served four terms in the House of Representatives. "I hope you won't get tired of trusting us," Mr Marcos told supporters in remarks streamed on Facebook, a platform at the heart of his campaign strategy. An unofficial tally showed Mr 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. - A group representing those persecuted by the Marcos dictatorship has described the result as a "nightmare"

An unofficial vote count in the Philippines presidential election showed a huge early lead for Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the notorious late dictator.

"Fact can really be stranger than fiction. Despite its fall from grace, the Marcos family returned from exile in the 1990s and has since been a powerful force in politics, retaining its influence with vast wealth and far-reaching connections. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was headed for a stunning victory in the Philippines' presidential election on Monday with double the votes of his nearest rival, putting the son of the notorious late dictator on the cusp of a historic political fightback. Marcos Jr. had 26.3 million votes, more than double the 12.5 million votes for Leni Robredo, the vice president, with 81.8% of the eligible ballots counted, according to the unofficial Commission on Elections tally. - Despite its fall from grace, the Marcos family returned from exile in the 1990s and has since been a powerful force in politics, retaining its influence with vast wealth and far-reaching connections. - Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was headed for a stunning victory in the Philippines' presidential election on Monday with double the votes of his nearest rival.

Ferdinand Marcos, son of ex-dictator, takes unassailable lead over his rival Leni Robredo, unofficial count shows.

That followed a grenade attack on Sunday that injured nine people. More than 60,000 security personnel have been deployed to protect polling stations and election workers. “It’s another crossroads for us,” Judy Taguiwalo, 72, an anti-Marcos activist who was arrested twice and tortured during the elder Marcos’s regime, told AFP news agency.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son of the former dictator, is on the cusp of winning the Philippine presidential election by a landslide, according to preliminary ...

Despite his record on human rights and the Covid-19 pandemic, which made the country's hunger crisis worse, Duterte remains hugely popular domestically. Marcos Sr died in exile three years later, but his family returned in 1991 and became wealthy, influential politicians, with successive family members representing their dynastic stronghold of Ilocos Norte. Political analysts say Marcos Jr appeals to Filipinos tired of the political bickering and promises of progress and economic reform from successive administrations that many feel have failed to benefit ordinary people. The Philippines' Presidential Commission on Good Governance (PCGG), tasked with recovering the family and their associates' ill-gotten wealth, estimates about $10 billion was stolen from the Filipino people. Partial and unofficial results show Duterte Carpio is also leading the race for the vice presidency. "Even though the counting is not over yet, I cannot wait to thank all of you...

The Philippines woke to a new but familiar political dawn on Tuesday, after an election triumph by Ferdinand Marcos Jr paved the way for a once unimaginable ...

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Filipinos have decisively elected another Marcos and another Duterte to the nation's two highest offices.

It remains to be seen whether six years of Marcos presidency will come to be seen as the point at which the Philippines turns decisively from the hollow “cacique democracy” described by Benedict Anderson in the late 1980s to a more open form of autocracy. In explanations of the Marcos phenomenon, much attention has focused on the historical revisionism engineered by the Marcos campaign, especially via social media, which has asserted the earlier Marcos reign as an era of stability and order. However, in most ways we can expect a continuation of the vague, improvisational Duterte agenda of the past six years, with adjustments for personal style and inclination. As Gregory Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted in an article yesterday, “Marcos might well try to revive Duterte’s early outreach to Beijing, but he is unlikely to toss the U.S. alliance overboard as part of the effort.” The margin of victory was accurately reflected in pre-election polls, which showed both Marcos and Duterte-Carpio far out front of the rest of the field. Another immediate question concerns the Philippines international alignments in an era of growing strategic turbulence. But as I’ve noted before, the return of the once-shunned Marcos clan speaks to more profound social and political forces; disinformation alone can neither explain the Marcos victory, nor account for its massive scale. The president-elect will inherit from Duterte the seemingly perpetual challenges of poverty and unemployment, which have been exacerbated by the economic downturn of COVID-19. He will also be faced with stubbornly persistent Muslim and communist insurgencies that a string of presidents have failed sufficiently to address. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won with just under 40 percent of the vote at the 2004 election, around the same proportion of the vote that lifted Joseph Estrada to the presidency in 1998. The immediate question concerns how Marcos will lead the Philippines once he begins his six-year term on June 30. “If we’ll be fortunate, I’ll expect that your help will not wane, your trust will not wane because we have a lot of things to do in the times ahead.” At the 2016 election, current President Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency with just 39 percent of the popular vote, while in 2010, the late Benigno Aquino III gained 42 percent.

The son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos cemented a landslide presidential election victory on Tuesday, after Filipinos bet a familiar but ...

MANILA — Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator whose family plundered billions of dollars, was elected president of the Philippines by a landslide, ...

“The faith they had in liberal democracy has dried up … and they’ve developed this taste for illiberal rule over the course of the Duterte administration,” he said. As president, in control of the executive branch and with influence over government agencies, Marcos will have outsize power in controlling that hunt. Ferdinand Marcos, his wife, Imelda, daughter Imee and son have all held political posts in or representing the northern province of Ilocos Norte. Imelda, 92, who previously launched two unsuccessful presidential bids, arrived to a polling station Monday in a red outfit, rosary and Chanel pin. “Worse, he has portrayed the victims of human rights violations as money-seeking opportunists,” said the group’s secretary general, Cristina Palabay. After his return, he served as a representative for the province and then governor before he was elected to the Senate in 2010 — where he was later involved in a corruption scandal. He was governor of Ilocos Norte in the 1980s (replacing his aunt), before he left with the uprising that overthrew his father.