[ANALYSIS] Authoritarian contamination after EDSA

In the political science literature, authoritarian diaspora refers to personalities formerly identified with fallen dictatorships who migrate across multiple parties in the period of democratization. Authoritarian contamination is a potent variant of the authoritarian diaspora since it infects democratic parties or parties that struggled against authoritarianism or were founded in its aftermath to consolidate democratic gains.

Lakas-CMD was formed in the spirit of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted the Marcos dictatorship. It was a merger of the Lakas ng EDSA party founded by Ramos and the National Union of Christian Democrats founded by former senator and anti-Marcos leader Raul S. Manglapus. Lakas-CMD supported Bongbong Marcos’ failed vice-presidential run in 2016 and has endorsed his presidential bid in 2022.

The LDP suffered the same fate as the KBL after Mitra lost his presidential bid. Cojuangco attempted to consolidate the LDP by running for the speakership in the House of Representatives, but a majority of the legislators had already switched to the new party in power: the Lakas ng EDSA-National Union of Christian Democrats . The LDP reorganized itself under the leadership of then-Senate president Edgardo Angara, and became the primary opposition party under the Ramos presidency.

The chief architect of the growth of Lakas NUCD-UMDP into a monolithic party under the Ramos administration was Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. – a former ranking member of the LDP despite his personal and business association with the Marcoses. He successfully negotiated for a series of formal coalition agreements between Lakas and other minor parties such as NP, LP, PDP-Laban, NPC, and the KBL.

In order to survive her stay in office, she consolidated political power by disbursing patronage to key political allies and sectors. Arroyo engineered the merger of Lakas with her original party Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino to form the Lakas Kampi CMD . Kampi was formed in 1997 by then-senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as a breakaway faction of the LDP to launch her presidential candidacy.

A potential Marcos-Duterte victory in 2022 would place the Philippines in a full political cycle with authoritarian resurrection.The inability to adequately address the legacies of authoritarianism three decades since the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship has impacted the overall consolidation of the country's democratic gains and continues to weaken its electoral and party system.

wow full circle. we seem nostalgic for type of governance during the 1970s so let us re-live it again. The millenials are eager to experience it for themselves. so be it.

Never again

Rappler wag masyadong pina ngungunahan, kayo kayo malapit ng ipasara. Puro lang kayong negative magbalita. Palagay nyoba sa panahon ngayon i didiclare nyapa ang martial law? Hindi no. We r in new generations. Bias Media😂

iiyak mga pinklawan at rappler

in short, lugmok ang Pilipinas

May mga nauuto pa rin🤮

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