Vice President Leni Robredo beat former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Quezon province in 2016 by a margin of 211,770 votes
QUEZON, Philippines – Arroyo ally Danilo Suarez, incumbent governor of Quezon province, is backing Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. this elections like he did in 2016. And to make his bet win the province, Suarez is denying that Bongbong’s father had a hand in the coco levy fund scam that victimized many of his constituent farmers. the coco levy was taken advantage by the crony of Marcos. Mali, eh. Those were all accusations that came out during the, after the EDSA revolution.
In the pivotal Supreme Court ruling in 2012 in G.R. Nos. 177857-58, the High Court declared that 33 million shares in San Miguel bought by Marcos crony, the lateThe Supreme Court clearly said in that case: “In net effect, the CIIF block of SMC shares are simply the fruits of the coconut levy funds acquired at the expense of the coconut industry.”But Suarez would have his constituents believe that “the money was never stolen.
In 2015, the then-senator Marcos also pledged to help return the funds to coconut farmers by supporting legislation
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