Writing on the wall for the Marcos-Romualdez regime | The Manila Times

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IN the past several days, the writing on the wall for the Marcos-Romualdez regime has clearly appeared: It is a moribund government that is merely waiting for the family's history of being forcibly ousted to be repeated. In the best scenario, it will drag itself bloodied toward 2028, with Filipinos either hating the regime or just ignoring it, as happened to another US-puppet regime, Benigno Aquino III's.

It deserves its likely fate. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s greed in wanting his clan to continue to rule to the next generation is unprecedented. Marcos should have been extremely content that by a quirk of fate — the popularity of the Dutertes who supported him and were willing to wait for six years for Sara to be president — Filipinos took a chance that the son would not be like his authoritarian father who eventually ruined the country. Marcos Jr. should have devoted heart and soul, given up everything else and use all his energies to change the current and global assessments of his father as the country's most corrupt president ever.