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President Marcos (left) and his wife Imelda (center) meet with US President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) in Manila in October 1966. Under intense pressure from the Johnson administration, [115] Marcos reversed his prior position of not sending Philippine forces to Vietnam, [115] [118] consenting to limited involvement. [119]
Marcos ran for President of the Philippines in the 2022 election under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, [18] which he won by a landslide [5] with nearly 59% of the vote. [19] [20] His win was the largest since 1981, when his father won 88% of the votes due to a boycott by the opposition who protested the prior election. [21] [22] [23]
Marcos ran for president on a campaign platform centered on national unity and continuity of the policies of Rodrigo Duterte, his predecessor. [20] [21] He won the 2022 elections, receiving 31,629,783 (58.77%) votes out of a total of 56,097,722, beating his closest rival, Liberal Party member and Vice President Leni Robredo by over 15 million votes.
The first national presidential election was held, [note 3] and Manuel L. Quezon (1935–44) was elected to a six-year term with no provision for re-election [4] as the second Philippine president and the first Commonwealth president. [note 2] In 1940, however, the Constitution was amended to allow re-election but shortened the term to four ...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, seeking ways to come up with ways to reduce tensions in the South China Sea and restore Filipino fishermen ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Friday he will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the sidelines of the APEC Summit in San Francisco to discuss ...
This timeline of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines covers three periods of Philippine history in which Marcos wielded political control. First, it covers the period of Marcos' first two terms—1965 to 1969 and 1969 to 1972—under the 1935 Constitution, as well as the antecedent events which brought Marcos to political power.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump discussed their countries' alliance and their desire to strengthen that deep relationship in a phone call on ...