{"id":44389,"date":"2022-05-11T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/philippines-election-qa-why-did-macros-jr-win-and-what-can-we-expect-from-his-presidency"},"modified":"2022-05-11T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:40:58","slug":"philippines-election-qa-why-did-marcos-jr-win-and-what-can-we-expect-from-his-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44389","title":{"rendered":"Philippines election Q&amp;A: why did Marcos Jr win and what can we expect from his presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of rebranding its image, the Marcos family is back in power. Inheriting a challenging economic situation, it remains unclear how Marcos Jr will use his huge mandate<\/p>\n<p>The Marcos family has spent years rebranding its image, falsely portraying the authoritarian rule of Marcos Sr in which billions were plundered as a golden era and downplaying past atrocities. Researchers have described an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/philippines-election-bongbong-poised-to-become-president-as-marcos-history-is-rewritten\">onslaught of disinformation<\/a> designed to revise history, enhance the reputation of the Marcoses and undermine their opponents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/philippines-election-qa-why-did-macros-jr-win-and-what-can-we-expect-from-his-presidency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of rebranding its image, the Marcos family is back in power. Inheriting a challenging economic situation, it remains unclear how Marcos Jr will use his huge mandateThe Marcos family has spent years rebranding its image, falsely portraying t&#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-44389","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\/44389","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=44389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions\/44390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}