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Mr Marcos Jr, 64, the son and namesake of the notorious dictator overthrown in a 1986 "people power" uprising, won the May 9 election in a landslide and will be sworn in on Thursday for a six-year term. Activists had appealed to the court to overturn the election commission's dismissal of their petitions, which sought the disqualification of Mr Marcos Jr before the ballot because of his decades-old tax violations, which they argued made him ineligible to run.The Marcos Jr camp did not immediately respond to a request for comment but has previously rejected the petitions as attempts to hobble his campaign.
The family and its cronies amassed an estimated US$10 billion in ill-gotten wealth in the 1970s and 1980s, a government commission found.
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