Former Senator Ferdinand ‘’Bongbong’’ R. Marcos, 64, is eyeing the presidency.
‘’The presidency is not taken off the table,’’ Marcos ,said during an Anvil Business Club press forum last night (September 1) on his political plans in the coming 2022 national elections.
Marcos said he is talking to everybody, including the two factions of the Partido Demokratikong Pilipino (PDP)-Laban, party formed in 1982 by the late Senate President Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr.
He said developments at the PDP-Laban is ‘’very fast moving’’ and it would take the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to decide which of the Cusi or Pimentel factions should it recognize. And it might reach the Supreme Court, he added.
Senator Christopher ‘’Bong’’ Go turned down a decision of the Cusi wing of the PDP-Laban to choose him and President Duterte as presidential and vice presidential tandem in the 2022 elections when the party holds a convention on September 8.
Marcos, son of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was asked whether he might run as president because his supporters want him to run for president or none at all.
He said that the presidency might be the right track because surveys show he fares better in the presidential bracket than in the vice presidential slot.
‘’That’s why I am considering it,’’ Marcos stressed.
Since next month is the period for filing certificates of candidacy in the 2022 national elections, Marcos said he would try to use the interregnum in making the right political decision.
He ran for the vice presidency under the banner of the 15-year-old Nacionalista Party (NP). He said he ran as an independent because there were three of them in the NP who ran in 2016. One of them is former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.
‘’That’s possible,’’ he replied to a query whether he might run under the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), a party formed by his father in 1978.
‘’But it depends on what the parties do,’’ he said.
The almost two-hour press forum saw Marcos dissecting the country’s myriad problems and explaining their solutions.
Asked what would he describe as the legacy of his father to the Filipino people, young Marcos said: ‘’Sense of nationhood.’’
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