Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is on course for a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election. For those who grew up under the martial law of his father, the result brings up the horrors of the past
Survivors of the brutal regime of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos have described his son’s apparent landslide presidential election victory as the product of trickery and disinformation, warning that it is unlikely the billions stolen by his family can now be recovered, and that human rights are likely to weaken.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr had won more than 30.8 million votes in a highly divisive presidential election by Monday, an unofficial count showed. His vote tally is more than double that of his closest challenger, the human rights lawyer and current vice president, Leni Robredo, who had campaigned based on
breakthrough? it is it clear what has made the breakthrough? breakthrough? it isn t. dual nationals breakthrough? it isn t. dual nationals have breakthrough? it isn t. dual nationals have often - breakthrough? it isn t. dual nationals have often been l breakthrough? it isn t. dual- nationals have often been detained in iran for political gain and in this case it was connected to a £400 million debt related to 1500 tanks that had been sold. the 1970s was a very tricky time for iran, the islamic revolution had happened and so the uk had refused to pay that debt and that i have been held up as a reason to use these dual nationals as some sort of leveraged to get that money, and it should be clear that money, and it should be clear that that money had been owed to the iranians by an international court, so you could speculate and argue that perhaps that has been resolved somehow. as far as what the government has said, they have denied those two things are related and have said that
much longer can we hold on? in other news. the detained british iranian nazanin zaghari ratcliffe has had her passport returned and a british negotiating team is in tehran, according to her mp tulip siddiq. mrs zaghari ratcliffe has been detained in iran since her arrest in 2016 on charges of plotting to overthrow the government allegations she has always denied. nazanin s sister in law, rebecca ratcliffe has been speaking to the bbc. she s quite apprehensive of going outside. her family have always been intimidated by her captors, the irgc. they often make threatening messages and things around her, so she doesn t really tend to go out, she doesn t trust many people. of course, covid s been problematic in iran, like it has been elsewhere, so there s not a lot