MARCOSES COME CLOSE TO FULL CIRCLE
Alexander Martin Remollino

With three of them now holding elective posts -– including one senator -– the Marcoses have come close to full circle.

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the only son of the ousted president, was among the new senators-elect proclaimed last May 15, five days after the country's first automated elections. His mother, Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, is the new representative of Ilocos Norte's second district. His sister, Maria Imelda Josefa “Imee” Marcos, is Ilocos Norte's new governor.

Forced into exile in Hawaii on the heels of the 1986 People Power uprising, the Marcoses were allowed to return in 1991.

This is not the first time since 1992 that any of the remaining Marcoses were able to hold elective offices.

Imelda was elected representative of her native Leyte's first district in 1995.

Bongbong represented Ilocos Norte, his father's home province, from 1992 to 1995. He subsequently served as Ilocos Norte's governor for three terms. In 2007 he was reelected as the province's second-district representative.

Imee was Ilocos Norte's second-district representative from 1998 to 2007.

This, however, is the first time all three of them are holding elective posts at the same time. While it is not quite yet the time for them to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” all it would take for a complete reversal of 1986 is for one of them to become president... READ FULL ARTICLE AT PHILIPPINE ONLINE CHRONICLES OR AT LA INDYMEDIA