{"id":39086,"date":"2024-05-08T02:43:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39086"},"modified":"2024-05-08T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:43:58","slug":"philippines-is-the-unstoppable-marcos-duterte-alliance-headed-for-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39086","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Is the unstoppable Marcos-Duterte alliance headed for divorce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <br><strong>With his signature bombast, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd of cheering supporters in January that his successor was a drug addict. The man who replaced him, Ferdinand &#8220;Bongbong&#8221; Marcos Jr, shot back, saying the former leader must have hurled the insult in an opioid-fuelled haze.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the strongest sign yet of a crack in the alliance that catapulted Mr Marcos to a historic win in 2022. His ally: Vice-President Sara Duterte, the former president&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the start, analysts had predicted a divorce between the two most powerful Philippine political dynasties. The likelihood only increased amid public spats and growing differences over political agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet splitting up might not be an option for Mr Marcos and Ms Duterte, who sold themselves to voters as the &#8220;UniTeam&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: With his signature bombast, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a crowd of cheering supporters in January that his successor was a drug addict. The man who replaced him, Ferdinand &#8220;Bongbong&#8221; Marcos Jr, shot back, saying the former leader must have hurled the insult in an opioid-fuelled haze. That was the strongest sign yet of a crack in the alliance that catapulted Mr Marcos to a historic win in 2022. His ally: Vice-President Sara Duterte, the former president&#8217;s daughter. From the start, analysts had predicted a divorce between the two most powerful Philippine political dynasties. The likelihood only increased&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39088,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions\/39088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}