Running battles: Marcos Jr held firm in his bid to run for president while Sara Duterte – seen below with students taking wefies in a 2017 file photo – has indicated that she will only run for the vice president’s post, disappointing her father, the current autocratic President Rodrigo Duterte. — Filepics/Reuters
Second, since the race necessarily becomes one for a successor, an incumbent’s power of endorsement is weak, because its non-transferable mostly, while in the ensuing electoral battle, the authority and resources of the incumbent evaporate as election day nears. The results played out from September to October. The trial balloon of a Go for president and Duterte for vice president was lowered. Instead of the president seeking the vice presidency, Go announ-ced he was setting his ambitions lower to seek that post. Others proposed that the president, in turn, seek a seat in the Senate as a kind of insurance.
I had also previously pointed out the tensions between the president and the Marcoses after the president had taken pains to spell out the limited, user-friendly nature of his political relationship with them, one he considered fully paid with the state funeral he’d granted the late dictator. Then the president got into the act. A bully more often than not relies on an already fearsome reputation to intimidate his targets into giving in. The past month, then, was about the president trying to bully Marcos Jr into sliding down to allow his daughter to slide up in the 2022 presidential and vice-presidential derby. Because from the point of view of the president or his people, all the manoeuvrings left him a bystander.
Jz like in Msia when father, mother, grandparents, great2 grandparents may b good national leaders, that does not make d younger generation one.
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