{"id":45908,"date":"2022-06-30T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/30\/marcos-jr-pays-tribute-to-dictator-father-as-he-is-sworn-in-as-president-of-the-philippines-video"},"modified":"2022-06-30T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:29:03","slug":"marcos-jr-pays-tribute-to-dictator-father-as-he-is-sworn-in-as-president-of-the-philippines-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45908","title":{"rendered":"Marcos Jr pays tribute to dictator father as he is sworn in as president of the Philippines \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Jr, who began his term as president of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\">Philippines<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday, invoked his father\u2019s legacy as he promised he would deliver for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Crucial to Marcos Jr\u2019s success was an alliance with outgoing president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s daughter Sara, who secured the vice-presidential post with more votes than him, and the backing of rival dynasties.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters took to the streets of Manila as the president-elect, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, and Sara Duterte were due to take office after winning landslide victories in last month&#8217;s elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/ferdinand-marcos-jnr-bongbong-philippines-president-swearing-in\">Ferdinand Marcos Jnr praises dictator father during swearing in as Philippines president<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/the-punisher-rodrigo-dutertes-violent-reign-as-philippines-president-to-end\">\u2018The Punisher\u2019: Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s violent reign as Philippines president to end<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/30\/marcos-jr-pays-tribute-to-dictator-father-as-he-is-sworn-in-as-president-of-the-philippines-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Jr, who began his term as president of the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;on Thursday, invoked his father\u2019s legacy as he promised he would deliver for the country.Crucial to Marcos Jr\u2019s success was an alliance with outgoing president Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s da&#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":[41,53,2377,55,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-imelda-marcos","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908","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=45908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908\/revisions\/45909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}