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The 2022 Philippine Election: Trouble for Democracy and Foreign
Dark Days for Philippine Democracy and Human Rights. From 2016 to 2022, the Philippine democracy declined substantially due to Duterte's autocratic policies, from a 65 to a 55 in Freedom House's democracy rankings. A violent wave of extrajudicial killings of thousands of suspected drug users, repression of journalists and civil society, and ...
In the Philippines, a dictator's son won because illiberalism is
The Philippine election is the latest example of illiberalism's popularity. The landslide victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the country's longtime dictator, has exposed one of liberal ...
Why the 2022 Philippines election is so significant
8 May 2022. The Philippines goes to the polls on May 9 to choose a new president, in what analysts say will be the most significant election in the Southeast Asian nation's recent history ...
Duterte, Marcos and political dynasties in the Philippine ...
Political dynasties in the Philippines are nothing new. Richard Heydarian, an expert on Philippine politics, says they are such a dominant feature in the country that between 70% and 90% of ...
Philippine Election Marred by Violence, Vote-Buying: Monitoring Mission
Political Dynasties Dominate Philippines Election — Again By Mong Palatino The return to power of the Marcos clan hints at deeper problems with the country's democracy.
The Philippines in 2022: Elections, Omicron, and a Delayed Recovery
The year 2022 is shaping up to be a tougher year, but many Filipinos are pinning their hopes on the changes that the upcoming presidential election will bring. The election, scheduled for May 9 ...
What Happened in the Philippine Elections?
May 17, 2022 • By Billie Phillips. asia pacific elections Philippines. Image credit: International IDEA. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and an adversarial campaigning period, counting is almost complete and indicates a likely return for the Marcos political dynasty in the Philippines with the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Reflections on the Philippine presidential race
The race for the presidency in the 2022 Philippine elections may be the most highly divisive and contested referendum for the highest public office in the country. It is a high-stakes and high-risk contest with intense pressures to win from both the top contenders for the office and those who support them. Focusing on the top two contenders, it ...
The 2022 Elections: What's at Stake for Philippine Democracy?
The Marcos-Duterte-Arroyo-Estrada alliance is a formidable alliance. If successful, this alliance will result in the consolidation of political power in the Philippines among these political families, in which 40 or 20 years ago under an EDSA 1 or 2 scenario, would have been far-fetched.
The top socio-economic and political issues in 2022
The top socio-economic and political issues in 2022. If I were to prepare a memo to the next president of this republic, I would ask him or her (hopefully, her) to focus on the following top ...
Political Dynasties Dominate Philippines Election
More than 70 percent of party-list groups which competed in the 2022 elections have ties to political dynasties and big business interests, according to a survey by election watchdog Kontra Daya.
A Marcos returns to power in the Philippines
Marcos Sr. died in 1989 and his family was allowed to return to the Philippines in 1992. Since 1992, the Marcos family had made no secret of its plans to reclaim political power and influence and ...
'I'm disgusted': readers in the Philippines on the 2022 election result
Last modified on Sat 14 May 2022 10.31 EDT. A fter a landslide election victory, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr is to become the next president of the Philippines. The son and namesake of the ...
The Long Road to Peace in the Southern Philippines
September 15, 2017. (Jes Aznar/The New York Times) Over the past five and a half years, while the world has focused on Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's excesses, particularly his deadly war on drugs, a groundbreaking possibility for peace has emerged under the first president of the Philippines to hail from Mindanao, the second-largest ...
The Philippines in 2022 : The Power of Dynastic Politics
In 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator, won a landslide victory in the presidential election after campaigning largely on nostalgia for the Philippines' authoritarian past and perceived former greatness. The country was finally able to reopen from COVID-19 lockdowns after enduring a surge in the Omicron variant in the earlier months of the year. Global food ...
Philippines: Marcos Should Focus on Rights Issues
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should demonstrate a serious commitment to human rights in his first State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2022.
Philippine elections and the politics behind it
In 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was elected with a single term, six-year presidency not by a majority, but with a plurality of only 39 per cent, or 16.6 million votes out of the 44 million votes cast. Duterte's victory was made possible as votes were split among four other presidential candidates, similar to past Philippine presidents who have ...
World Report 2023: Philippines
Pictures and clothes of Lenin Baylon, a 9-year-old boy killed in a "drug war" shooting in 2016, on display at a news conference at the Commission on Human Rights, Quezon City, Philippines ...
2022, the year to be political
The year 2022 is the year young Filipinos can wield the great power of deciding who gets to lead the country in the next six years. Philippine politics has been dismissed by many as toxic ...
[OPINION] Why the 2022 presidential candidates must have a ...
For example, the 2014 RP-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which allows American imperialist forces to have access to, and maintain, operational control over Philippine military ...
Philippine politics 2021/2022: Partisan and parting (aka send in the
Philippine politics 2021/2022: Partisan and parting (aka send in the clowns) BY Philip Cu Unjieng. Oct 16, 2021 05:05 PM. HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL. Philip Cu Unjieng. Let's be honest, we are such an immature nation when it comes to politics. We're onion-skinned, fiercely partisan, and ready to part with the best of ...
Essay: Politics in the Philippines
The political system in the Philippines eventually developed, though not strictly in a good direction, with frameworks like Anarchy of Families (Mccoy, 1993), Bossism (Sidel, 1997), and Patron-client framework being the most influential in viewing contemporary Philippine politics. Later in the paper, the researcher would be mainly using the ...
Climate change becomes an election issue in the Philippines
Climate change has never been an election issue in Philippine elections before. But election watchers say the 2022 campaign season is different. Climate change and renewable energy are being talked out in campaign speeches, media interviews and candidates' platforms. As Ashley Westerman reports, activists are hopeful this means whoever ends up winning the presidency after […]
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Dark Days for Philippine Democracy and Human Rights. From 2016 to 2022, the Philippine democracy declined substantially due to Duterte's autocratic policies, from a 65 to a 55 in Freedom House's democracy rankings. A violent wave of extrajudicial killings of thousands of suspected drug users, repression of journalists and civil society, and ...
The Philippine election is the latest example of illiberalism's popularity. The landslide victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the country's longtime dictator, has exposed one of liberal ...
8 May 2022. The Philippines goes to the polls on May 9 to choose a new president, in what analysts say will be the most significant election in the Southeast Asian nation's recent history ...
Political dynasties in the Philippines are nothing new. Richard Heydarian, an expert on Philippine politics, says they are such a dominant feature in the country that between 70% and 90% of ...
Political Dynasties Dominate Philippines Election — Again By Mong Palatino The return to power of the Marcos clan hints at deeper problems with the country's democracy.
The year 2022 is shaping up to be a tougher year, but many Filipinos are pinning their hopes on the changes that the upcoming presidential election will bring. The election, scheduled for May 9 ...
May 17, 2022 • By Billie Phillips. asia pacific elections Philippines. Image credit: International IDEA. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and an adversarial campaigning period, counting is almost complete and indicates a likely return for the Marcos political dynasty in the Philippines with the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The race for the presidency in the 2022 Philippine elections may be the most highly divisive and contested referendum for the highest public office in the country. It is a high-stakes and high-risk contest with intense pressures to win from both the top contenders for the office and those who support them. Focusing on the top two contenders, it ...
The Marcos-Duterte-Arroyo-Estrada alliance is a formidable alliance. If successful, this alliance will result in the consolidation of political power in the Philippines among these political families, in which 40 or 20 years ago under an EDSA 1 or 2 scenario, would have been far-fetched.
The top socio-economic and political issues in 2022. If I were to prepare a memo to the next president of this republic, I would ask him or her (hopefully, her) to focus on the following top ...
More than 70 percent of party-list groups which competed in the 2022 elections have ties to political dynasties and big business interests, according to a survey by election watchdog Kontra Daya.
Marcos Sr. died in 1989 and his family was allowed to return to the Philippines in 1992. Since 1992, the Marcos family had made no secret of its plans to reclaim political power and influence and ...
Last modified on Sat 14 May 2022 10.31 EDT. A fter a landslide election victory, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr is to become the next president of the Philippines. The son and namesake of the ...
September 15, 2017. (Jes Aznar/The New York Times) Over the past five and a half years, while the world has focused on Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's excesses, particularly his deadly war on drugs, a groundbreaking possibility for peace has emerged under the first president of the Philippines to hail from Mindanao, the second-largest ...
In 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator, won a landslide victory in the presidential election after campaigning largely on nostalgia for the Philippines' authoritarian past and perceived former greatness. The country was finally able to reopen from COVID-19 lockdowns after enduring a surge in the Omicron variant in the earlier months of the year. Global food ...
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should demonstrate a serious commitment to human rights in his first State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2022.
In 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was elected with a single term, six-year presidency not by a majority, but with a plurality of only 39 per cent, or 16.6 million votes out of the 44 million votes cast. Duterte's victory was made possible as votes were split among four other presidential candidates, similar to past Philippine presidents who have ...
Pictures and clothes of Lenin Baylon, a 9-year-old boy killed in a "drug war" shooting in 2016, on display at a news conference at the Commission on Human Rights, Quezon City, Philippines ...
The year 2022 is the year young Filipinos can wield the great power of deciding who gets to lead the country in the next six years. Philippine politics has been dismissed by many as toxic ...
For example, the 2014 RP-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which allows American imperialist forces to have access to, and maintain, operational control over Philippine military ...
Philippine politics 2021/2022: Partisan and parting (aka send in the clowns) BY Philip Cu Unjieng. Oct 16, 2021 05:05 PM. HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL. Philip Cu Unjieng. Let's be honest, we are such an immature nation when it comes to politics. We're onion-skinned, fiercely partisan, and ready to part with the best of ...
The political system in the Philippines eventually developed, though not strictly in a good direction, with frameworks like Anarchy of Families (Mccoy, 1993), Bossism (Sidel, 1997), and Patron-client framework being the most influential in viewing contemporary Philippine politics. Later in the paper, the researcher would be mainly using the ...
Climate change has never been an election issue in Philippine elections before. But election watchers say the 2022 campaign season is different. Climate change and renewable energy are being talked out in campaign speeches, media interviews and candidates' platforms. As Ashley Westerman reports, activists are hopeful this means whoever ends up winning the presidency after […]