The Senator Who Backed Marcos in 2022 Is Now Proposing the Marcos Family Connection for the Anti-Marcos Ticket

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The Senator Who Backed Marcos in 2022 Is Now Proposing the Marcos Family Connection for the Anti-Marcos Ticket

The Proposal

MANILA — Senator Robin Padilla has publicly proposed his Senate colleague Imee Marcos as Sara Duterte’s vice presidential candidate for the 2028 presidential election. Imee Marcos is the sister of incumbent President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. — the same president whose administration is currently pursuing the impeachment of Sara Duterte, who is the same Sara Duterte who was Bongbong Marcos’s running mate in 2022 in the UniTeam alliance before the political relationship collapsed in 2024.

The Specific Irony

The specific irony: Sara Duterte running for president in 2028 with Imee Marcos as her running mate would reunite the Marcos family political brand with the Duterte political brand in a configuration where the Duterte is at the top of the ticket rather than the Marcos. The 2022 alliance was Marcos-Duterte. The 2028 proposal is Duterte-Marcos. The family relationship — Bongbong being Imee’s brother — adds the specific complication that a Duterte-Imee Marcos ticket would be simultaneously anti-Bongbong-Marcos and pro-Marcos-family in ways that the Philippine political vocabulary is not fully equipped to process.

Imee Marcos’s Response

Imee Marcos’s response that Sara has ‘always been her running mate’ is the specific non-denial that maintains maximum political optionality: it does not confirm a commitment, it expresses a positive personal relationship, and it leaves the 2028 alliance discussion open without requiring a premature decision. The Philippine political tradition of maintaining relationships across factional conflicts while the factional conflict plays out is the specific tradition that Imee Marcos’s response reflects.

The Disqualification Scenario

The disqualification scenario that the Marcos administration’s impeachment effort is attempting to produce would remove Sara Duterte from the 2028 ballot before the Imee Marcos running mate question becomes a decision. If Sara is disqualified, the Duterte-Marcos alliance configuration is academic. If Sara survives the impeachment, the 2028 campaign becomes the specific political contest that the Marcos camp is attempting to prevent through the impeachment proceedings. The political mathematics are clear. The legal proceedings are the mechanism.

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