Familiar faces, bind ties, political greenhorns, old hands with new blood, and “utang na loob”—what awaits the cabinet appointees of Bongbong Marcos Jr. as they inherit a pandemic- and recession-hit economy? MarcosInauguration | via philstarlife
FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER. Toots Ople, who will head the Department of Migrant Workers, is the daughter of Marcos Sr.'s labor secretary Blas Ople.
Enrile, Marcos Jr.'s presidential legal counsel, also served as his father's justice secretary and defense minister.Angping, Marcos Jr.'s head of Presidential Management Staff, had a stint as technical assistant of Kokoy Romualdez, the late brother of Imelda Marcos. Marcos Jr.'s special assistant to the president is his childhood friend Lagdameo Jr., who's the grandson of Marcos Sr.'s crony Floirendo Sr., dubbed as the"banana king."
Juan Ponce Enrile, Marcos Jr.'s chosen presidential legal counsel, is Marcos Sr.'s Justice secretary and Department of National Defense minister. Enrile is known to be the architect and administrator of Martial Law. He later on became a key figure in the military-backed 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that threw the Marcoses out of Malacañang. Decades later, Enrile has turned into a staunch supporter of his old boss' son and namesake.
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