Prodigal son: Marcos Jr meeting supporters in this file picture. The former dictator’s family has neither apologised nor addressed the events of the past. — Reuters
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr has made it clear he will not discuss the past, after dismissing media questions about his father’s dictatorial rule and overthrow in a popular uprising 35 years ago.
Marcos, 64, the early frontrunner in 2022 surveys, has been dodging questions about a brutal era of martial law that started seven years into his father’s 1965-1986 rule, touting instead a message of unity.
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