Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2012)

Ferdinand Emmanuel "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. (born September 13, 1957 in Manila ) is a Filipino politician .

biography

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. comes from the influential Marcos family. His grandfather Mariano Marcos was already a member of the Congress . His father Ferdinand Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965–86 , initially as elected president, later as dictator under martial law. His mother, the former First Lady Imelda Marcos , was a member of the House of Representatives for several legislatures after the death of her husband. His sister Imee Marcos is also a politician.

After attending Georgetown Preparatory School and High School in Rockville (Maryland) , he studied economics at Oxford University , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BAEcon.). He later completed a postgraduate degree in business administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , graduating with a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

During his father's presidency from 1980 to 1983, he was first lieutenant governor and then governor of Ilocos Norte until the end of the Marcos dictatorship in February 1986 .

Marcos, who is a businessman by profession , was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines (Kapulungán ng mgá Kinatawán ng Pilipinas or Mababang Kapulungan ng Kongreso) from 1992 to 1995 . He was later governor of Ilocos Norte again from 1998 to 2007.

Between 2007 and 2010 he was again a member of the House of Representatives. As a member of the KBL (Kilusang Bagong Lipunan) he represented constituency II (2nd District) of the Ilocos Norte province and succeeded his sister Imee Marcos in this constituency.

In the 14th Congress he was deputy opposition leader in the constitution committee. In addition, as a representative of the parliamentary minority, he was a member of the committees for tourism and transport.

He was elected to the Senate in 2010 through an alliance between his then Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) party and the Nacionalista Party (NP) . In 2012 he joined the NP and was subsequently expelled from the KBL, but kept his Senate seat in the ranks of the NP.

In the Senate, he is currently Chairman of the Committees on Local Government and Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement . He is also chairman of the supervisory committees for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( Oversight Committee on ARMM Organic Act ) and for socialized and low prices apartments ( Congressional Oversight Committee on Socialized and Low-Cost Housing condonation Act ).

Marcos ran as a vice- presidential candidate in the 2016 Philippine presidential election . He ran for an independent because the Nacionalista Party had not nominated him. The presidential candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago named him her " running mate ". Marcos came in second with 34.5% of the vote, just behind Leni Robredo of the Liberals . He appealed to the Supreme Court's presidential election tribunal .

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Marcos Jr.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bongbong to run for VP on abs-cbn.com, October 5, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Patricia Lourdes Viray: Bongbong Marcos files protest vs Leni's victory. In: Philstar , June 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Marcos, Ferdinand Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcos, Ferdinand Emmanuel Romualdez Jr. (full name); Bong bong (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila , Philippines