{"id":44276,"date":"2022-05-08T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/philippines-election-voters-marcos-jr-dictator-son-leni-robredo-human-rights"},"modified":"2022-05-08T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:07:52","slug":"philippines-faces-stark-election-choice-dictators-son-or-human-rights-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44276","title":{"rendered":"Philippines faces stark election choice \u2013 dictator\u2019s son or human rights lawyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Marcos Jr leads polls but analysts point to huge rallies of his opponent and the vice-president, Leni Robredo<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the Philippines will go to the polls for a presidential election that pits frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the late dictator, against a human rights lawyer who has promised a transparent government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/authoritarian-nostalgia-philippines-seem-set-return-marcoses-to-power-ferdinand-marcos-jr\">Marcos Jr<\/a>, known as \u201cBongbong\u201d, whose authoritarian father plundered billions of dollars from the state and presided over rife human rights abuses, has maintained a strong lead in opinion polls in the run-up to Monday\u2019s vote. If elected president, it would mark an extraordinary rehabilitation of one of the country\u2019s most controversial political families.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/philippines-election-voters-marcos-jr-dictator-son-leni-robredo-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Marcos Jr leads polls but analysts point to huge rallies of his opponent and the vice-president, Leni RobredoVoters in the Philippines will go to the polls for a presidential election that pits frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and nam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44276\/revisions\/44289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}