THE HIRING of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s youngest son as a “special assistant” to the Speaker is not surprising, political analysts said at the weekend, noting that this is his prerogative.
“It’s well within his functions to create these temporary positions that would theoretically ease his job as the Speaker,” Jean S. Encinas Franco, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines , said by telephone.
Photos on the Facebook account of House Minority Leader Marcelino C. Libanan showed the younger Mr. Marcos representing the majority wing at the minority bloc’s first meeting this year. The youngest presidential son, a software engineer, graduated from the Oxford Brookes University in Britain.The president last week denied claims that he was grooming his eldest for the presidency. “He is grooming himself,” he told reporters. “He has decided on this career — politics — and he will handle it the way he does.”
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