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Whatever the sins of the Dutertes, they will no longer be enough to distract the nation from the challenges of its day-to-days
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You probably even like Marcos Jr., except you only whisper this to your trusted friends who will not judge you. Or his family continues to rankle you, except there’s theover Marcos in 2022. We had dreaded what he’d do as president. We imagined a well-oiled political machine that would pack the Cabinet with cronies, harass journalists to favor the propagandist vloggers, and change people and policies with cold-hearted efficiency.
In June, Marcos would be entering the last half of his six-year term bedeviled by the same problems that visit every Philippine president on their third year in office, when the cut-him-some-slack period ends. of them. What was it that Imelda Marcos once said? “Perception is real; truth is not.” The President is perceived to be not in full control of his own office’s power levers. It is said there’s a beeline of vested interests that he is unable to manage without the perspective of the First Lady or the Speaker, or both. is one sign. But Marcos did not make the decision to cut Co; it’s the budget scandal that decided this for him.
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