Ferdinand Marcos Jr wins Philippines presidential election: Unofficial tally

Marcos, 64, has presented no real policy platform, campaigning on a simple but ambiguous message of unity.

A major boon for Marcos was him securing the president's daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, as his running mate, tapping her father's vast support and helping Marcos to make inroads in new voter territory. The unofficial count showed Duterte-Carpio had won the vice presidency with more than triple the votes of her nearest opponent.

As the votes poured in, supporters outside the Marcos campaign headquarters jumped, waved flags and chanted"Marcos, Marcos, Marcos" ecstatically."Bongbong Marcos's wish that we all unite is becoming a reality." "Keep standing. Insist on the truth. It took time to build the structures of lies. We have time and opportunity to fight and dismantle these."

A high turnout caused long queues at polling centres, exacerbated in some areas by malfunctions in 533 of the 106,000 counting machines.

Absolute power can corrupt

Wonder that what this spells for Asean centrality n solidarity going forward. With the unfavourable developments in Cambodia, Myanmar n now possibly Philippines, can Asean still remains credible to the Democratic world? Will S'pore, M'sia, Brunei n Indonesia be outnumbered?

corruptions sometimes work better in Philipines 🤣

What a disgrace!

He wins by cheating I think!? 18M but in few minutes go back to 13M again hehehhehe Credit to the owner 📸

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