The Tamesis
November 14, 2025
Manila— The Duterte empire made a big blunder by falling short to choose a reliable follower in the 2022 governmental political election. Because of this, the Duterte household currently locates itself in political heck. Will the Marcos empire make the exact same substantial blunder in advance of the 2028 governmental political election? Will the Marcos household endure the exact same destiny and wind up in political heck in 2028?
In the 2022 governmental political election, previous Head of state Rodrigo Duterte picked his relied on assistant and existing Legislator Christopher “Bong” Go as his governmental follower. Duterte desired his child, then-Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, to offer just as Go’s vice head of state. Sara Duterte is a defiant female that has actually coordinated with her dad, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to run as a vice-presidential prospect. The Marcos-Duterte union ultimately dominated, yet overemphasized vanities and huge passions quickly clashed, causing a bitter separation. Currently, the Duterte household locates itself in difficulty on several fronts.
With 2 and a fifty percent years left in the Marcos presidency, we do not see any individual being brushed as a follower in the Marcos camp. Head of state Marcos’s youngsters are all minors. Previous Audio Speaker Martin Romualz has actually broken down, Legislator Imee Marcos is a pariah in the Marcos camp, and none of Marcos’ modify vanities have sufficient gravitas to go toe-to-toe with Vice Head of state Sara Duterte.
Vice Head of state Sarah will certainly be a powerful governmental prospect in 2028 since she has several teams of strong advocates. Duterte has die-hard advocates, their base is rather big, and their assistance is unwavering. Participants of some spiritual teams will certainly adhere to the directions of their leaders and elect Vice Head of state Sarah. These consist of Christ Church, Jesus is West Bucks’ main-list Rep. Eddie Villanueva and Sen. Joel Villanueva, and Beauty Quiboloy’s Kingdom of Jesus Christ. There will certainly likewise be a command ballot by political leaders involved in corruption rumors that anticipate to get away responsibility throughout Sara Duterte’s presidency.
As opposed to brushing a follower, it shows up that lawful solutions are being trusted to avoid Sara Duterte from being chosen head of state. Initially, the Marcos management is dealing with the International Bad Guy Court (ICC) to prosecute Duterte and his previous replacement. Second, the solution of residential prosecutions is offered versus the enormous corruption dedicated by Vice Head of state Sala, Davao City Rep. Paul Duterte, and various other Duterte allies. Third, there is the choice of impeaching Vice Head of state Sarah following year.
Nevertheless, the performance of these solutions in protecting against VP Sara from running in the 2028 political election is uncertain. To make sure, these 3 solutions would certainly reveal the rotten core of the Duterte household, intending to decrease citizen assistance for them. Nevertheless, we have actually seen that no quantity of detraction, corruption, reasoning or rationality can drink Vice Head of state Sala’s team of strong advocates. As a result, there is an immediate demand to choose, grow and combine assistance for the prospect more than likely to beat Vice Head of state Sala at the surveys.
The only politicians that stood a possibility versus the Vice Head of state were those outside the Marcos camp. According to my aggressive estimations, these leaders are: Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo, Legislator Risa Hontiveros, Legislator Rafi Tulfo, and previous Philippine National Cops Principal General Nicholas Torre. Of the 4, Robredo still has the very best possibility, and any one of the others can work as her vice governmental prospect.
Yet to boost Robredo’s possibilities, she should create a partnership with the Marcos household and all various other anti-Duterte pressures, despite exactly how tarnished their pasts. Keeping an optimistic position will certainly be a guaranteed method to beat in the 2028 political elections. Actually, to be an optimist in 2028 is to naively sustain Vice Head of state Sarah. It is extremely crucial that all anti-Duterte teams take a practical position and construct a unified union to sustain a typical prospect for 2028. The optimists amongst the yellow and pink pressures have to desert their puritanical idea in 2028. Our country’s escape of heck will certainly need to learn the mud prior to we can get to completely dry, strong ground. Any individual that believes we can leap from the lavatory to the Yard of Eden is a fool.
We can prepare for the terrible grudge propensities of the Duterte youngsters in the method they honestly intimidate murder and retribution versus the resting head of state, his household, and his allies. If they can do it with the existing Marcos, they can do it with everybody else. There is great factor to be afraid that the physical violence will certainly be even worse than it was throughout Duterte’s very first term as head of state. This moment, there will certainly be no option to the International Bad Guy Court. We have actually likewise seen a big tendency for corruption from flooding control and public facilities jobs, private financing and also COVID-19 financing throughout the Duterte presidency and the Marcos-Duterte union’s 2 years in power.
The risks for the 2028 political election are exceptionally high for our nation. We either move on bit by bit, or we jumped backwards and sink much deeper right into the void.
