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Marcos son to run for vice president in Philippines

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Philippine Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of late President Ferdinand Marcos, declared Monday night his intention to run as vice-president in the 2016 elections. "I believe that elected officials have an obligation to our people to help change the course of our nation's history by banishing the politics of personality which to me is one of the primary causes why our country today has become a soft state where the rich become richer, the poor become poorer, graft and corruption is endemic," Marcos said in a statement.

He cited his 26 years experience of a public servant as his strength in running for the second highest post in the country.

The younger Marcos, whose first term as a senator ends next year, also served as vice governor and governor of Iocos Norte and representative of the second District of the same province. Endi