{"id":44298,"date":"2022-05-09T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/may\/09\/ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-favourite-to-win-presidency-on-election-day-in-philippines-video"},"modified":"2022-05-09T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:59:14","slug":"ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-favourite-to-win-presidency-on-election-day-in-philippines-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44298","title":{"rendered":"Ferdinand &#8216;Bongbong&#8217; Marcos favourite to win presidency on election day in Philippines \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\">Philippines<\/a>&nbsp;are voting in the presidential election on Monday 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. Leni Robredo, the current vice-president who has advocated for marginalised groups., trails Marcos in the polls. As vice president \u2013 a position elected separately from the president \u2013 she has frequently clashed with president Rodrigo Duterte, and has condemned his so-called &#8216;war on drugs\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/authoritarian-nostalgia-philippines-seem-set-return-marcoses-to-power-ferdinand-marcos-jr\">\u2018Authoritarian nostalgia\u2019: Philippines seem set to return Marcoses to power<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/27\/philippines-presidency-frontrunner-ferdinand-marcos-jr-praises-genius-dictator-father\">Philippines presidency frontrunner praises \u2018genius\u2019 dictator father<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/may\/09\/ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-favourite-to-win-presidency-on-election-day-in-philippines-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;are voting in the presidential election on Monday 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. Leni Ro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[2377,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imelda-marcos","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44299,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44298\/revisions\/44299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}