{"id":44870,"date":"2022-05-26T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/philippines-election-result-is-a-win-for-dynasty-politics"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T04:00:03","slug":"philippines-election-result-is-a-win-for-dynasty-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44870","title":{"rendered":"Philippines election result is a win for dynasty politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alliance between Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte reinforces power of influential families<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/new-era-for-philippines-begins-as-ferdinand-marcos-jr-officially-proclaimed-president\">New era for Philippines as Marcos Jr elected<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a deal \u2013 rumoured to have been brokered at the exclusive island resort of Balesin \u2013 that set the course of the Philippines election. The children of two of the country\u2019s most powerful families agreed to join forces: dictator\u2019s son Ferdinand Marcos Jr would run to be president in an alliance with Sara Duterte, the tough-talking daughter of the populist incumbent, Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, they won a thumping victory. Marcos Jr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/new-era-for-philippines-begins-as-ferdinand-marcos-jr-officially-proclaimed-president\">secured 31 million votes<\/a>, according to an unofficial count, thought to be the biggest mandate in decades. Sara Duterte, who ran to be vice-president, also won by a huge margin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/philippines-election-result-is-a-win-for-dynasty-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alliance between Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte reinforces power of influential familiesNew era for Philippines as Marcos Jr electedIt was a deal \u2013 rumoured to have been brokered at the exclusive island resort of Balesin \u2013 that set the course of &#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":[41,2377,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-imelda-marcos","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870","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=44870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions\/44871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}