OPINION | Bongbong Marcos’ mission: to defend his father’s legacy By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr. READ:
] had to make to do a good job. But after we came back from the United States, after exile, the political issue was Marcos. And for us to defend ourselves politically, somebody had to enter politics and be in the political arena so that not only the legacy of my father but even our own survival required that somebody go into politics.”
Having been a senator for six years, he felt he had become vice-presidential timber in 2016, even if only one of the bills he filed — the postponement of the 2013 Sangguniang Kabataan elections — was enacted into law. He lost to the unpretentious representative of the 3District of Camarines Sur, Leni Robredo. In the three elections where Bongbong ran for national office, he got no more than 35% of the votes of the electorate.
Hundreds of old videos were edited and then uploaded to YouTube, which were later reposted in Facebook. Social media was also used to counter the campaign of Leni Robredo with false or distorting information. The rebranding was helped by President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to bury Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. in the Libingan ng mga Bayani .
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