{"id":44320,"date":"2022-05-10T01:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/ferdinand-marcos-jr-triumph-philippines-presidential-election"},"modified":"2022-05-10T06:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:08:24","slug":"ferdinand-marcos-jr-set-to-triumph-in-philippines-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44320","title":{"rendered":"Ferdinand Marcos triumphs in Philippines presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son of late dictator wins more than twice as many votes as nearest rival after campaign marred by extensive social media disinformation<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the late dictator, has won a landslide presidential election victory, signalling an extraordinary rehabilitation for one of the country\u2019s most notorious political families.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 90% of an initial count concluded, Marcos Jr had almost 30 million votes, more than double the tally of his closest rival, the current vice-president, Leni Robredo, a former human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/ferdinand-marcos-jr-triumph-philippines-presidential-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of late dictator wins more than twice as many votes as nearest rival after campaign marred by extensive social media disinformationFerdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the late dictator, has won a landslide presidential election victory, si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3052,"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":[41,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","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\/44320","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\/3052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44359,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44320\/revisions\/44359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}