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This is a list of current and former presidents of the Philippines by time in office that consists of the 17 ... Ferdinand Marcos is the longest-serving president ...
He became the first president of the independent Philippines when the Commonwealth ended on July 4 of that year. The Third Republic was ushered in and would cover the administrations of the next five presidents, the last of which was Ferdinand Marcos (1965–86), [ 3 ] who performed a self-coup by imposing martial law in 1972. [ 25 ]
When Marcos became president, ine policy and politics functioned under a postwar geopolitical framework. [161] The Philippines was caught up in the anti-communist scare perpetuated by the US during the Cold War. [162] Marcos and the AFP claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines was a threat, even though it was still a small organization.
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.
Ferdinand Marcos's second term as President of the Philippines began on December 30, 1969, as a result of his winning the 1969 Philippine presidential election on November 11, 1969. Marcos was the first and last president of the Third Philippine Republic to win a second full term.
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.
Ferdinand Marcos was inaugurated to his first term as the 10th president of the Philippines on December 30, 1965. His inauguration marked the beginning of his two-decade long stay in power, even though the 1935 Philippine Constitution had set a limit of only two four-year terms of office.