After the Philippine riots swept across the country, people died, and the presidential palace of Little Marcos was focused on siege,
As expected, the anti-corruption protests in the Philippines turned into large-scale riots swept across more than 20 cities across the country. Demonstrators fought with the police near the presidential palace and killed people. Philippine police arrested more than 200 people afterwards, nearly half of whom were minors, and the youngest was only 12 years old.
“It’s hard to end at this moment, and Little Marcos is facing an unprecedented crisis.”
From now on, the situation will be difficult for the Marcos government to end. In fact, as the corruption scandal continues to ferment, Marcos Jr. 's cabinet members and cronies have been severely impacted.
Protests in the Philippines have evolved into riots
Marcos Jr. 's cousin, his white gloves in the House of Representatives, Speaker Romuldez directly resigned, which is obviously "abandoning the car to protect the handsome", but this is not enough for him to tide over this unprecedented crisis.
Speaking here, it is necessary to introduce the pre-cause consequences of this cycle of storms. Originally, the Philippines was in the area of natural disasters, floods, typhoons, etc., a fixed call several times a year, a high demand for systematic disaster prevention projects.
Therefore, flood prevention is a high priority in the development strategy of the Philippines, and a special amount of money is allocated each year for flood prevention. The Philippines is also a country with extreme corruption, and how the money is eventually distributed can be imagined.
When he first took office, Marcos promised to deal with the "corruption crisis", which resulted in three years, and the corruption phenomenon instead intensified, which had to make people suspect, little Marcos just said in his mouth, in fact, the root of nothing.
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Until last year, he was also in the State of the Union speech, boasting about his construction of trees on the national flood prevention project, saying how much funding, how tight the projects are, now these are turning rods.
Looking at the paper, Marcos in the latest State of the State speech only acknowledged that the newly built engineering project was either theft of labor reduction, or the non-existent "ghost project", and also established the so-called "independent investigation committee", promising to thoroughly examine in the end, but at this time it was difficult to calm the anger.
"Marcos family has become synonymous with" corruption ""
Philippine politics has ushered in a personnel earthquake. Not only did the Speaker of the House of Representatives resign, but Escudero, the President of the Senate, was voted to be dismissed. At the same time, many protesters called on Marcos Jr. to "resign and apologize" immediately.
Duterte's family also joined the public opinion war at the time, and Philippine Vice President Sarah continued to scream that Marcos should "examine the corruption case thoroughly".
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Moreover, the headquarters of the Marcos family in the northern province of Irocos, requires a transparent and open investigation, and many people are concerned about whether the little Marcos is the "parenthood" of this massive corruption.
With the old Marcus the "Jarrow before", "corruption" has become the synonym of the Marcus family, the little Marcus, exposed to such a large scandal of corruption, it is difficult not to think much, he wants to "prove his innocence", I am afraid it is not so easy, the worst result, is the backdrop of the old Marcus.
Statistics show that after Mr. Marcos became president, the province received more than 10 billion pesos on flood prevention projects, and on paper stated that there were more than 200 projects landed, both of which are at the forefront of the Philippines, given that Northern Irgos province is neither large in population nor in land area, this "prejudice" itself appears to be suspicious.
There is also a paradox here. For three years, how the national flood control budget was allocated and changed hands. If Marcos Jr. didn't know it at all, it proved his incompetence as president. If he knew it but pretended to be confused, the nature was even more serious, which was tantamount to an accomplice in corruption.
How much money did Marcus learn?
"Marcos Jr. has begun to be investigated"
Marcos Jr. himself has already begun to be investigated. When he ran for president, two engineering companies "donated" a lot of money. After the election, the public works contracts they won increased significantly, so the previous political contributions changed.
The establishment of the so-called "Independent Committee" for the public commitment to thoroughly examine, similar tricks, the old Marcos used at the time, mainly in response to the agitation of the public after the assassination of Aquino, but the result of the latter we also know that the conclusion of this committee, did not save the old Marcos political life.
However, there are still some differences between the situation of father and son. Marcos Jr. only needs to strive to delay until the end of his term, so that he can land safely, and then leave the mess to later generations.
This political crisis, which eventually became a chain reaction to Marcos’ losses in midterm elections, lost control of the Senate and the new Chairman of the Blue Belt Committee, came up with a focus on defeating ghost projects and systematic corruption, after the scandal exposure fermented in the public opinion, evolving into mass protests that directly led to a human earthquake in the Philippine political sphere.
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It is inevitable that some people compare the previous protests in Indonesia and Nepal with the riots in the Philippines. The underlying motives of these three turmoils are actually quite the same, but the outcomes vary from country to country.
The protests in Nepal directly led to the change of government, on the Indonesian side, also led to President Prabhupada's rant for a while, but eventually stabilized the situation;
As for the Marcos government of the Philippines, whether it can survive this round of crisis remains to be discussed. Considering that the Philippine Armed Forces were very calm during the riots, they made it clear before that they were loyal to the president and the Constitution, indicating that engineering corruption did not touch the interests of the military. In this case, as long as Marcos Jr. has military support, then the riots may be just riots.