IN a speech in Abra six years ago, then-vice presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. vowed that he would not follow in the footsteps of his father, the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Now that he has been elected as the country's 17th president, Marcos Jr. appears to be not stepping out of the shadow of his strongman father and namesake, based on some of his appointments and policies.
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