IN POLITICS, THERE are no permanent friends, and soon enough, no permanent family ties too.
Taking the case of the Marcoses, there’s no way to cover up the rift between the President and his sister who has openly admitted that she hasn’t had a conversation with her brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in a long time.
In an interview, the senator admitted that she was only able to talk to him during public gatherings.
With reelectionist Senator Imee Marcos abandoning her younger brother’s political bandwagon, their chit-chats during campaign sorties may as well come to an end.
Could the rift trigger the collapse of the country’s most powerful dynasty?… How I wish all other clans would also self-destruct, if only to spare the country from being held hostage by the “powers that may be”.
WHAT TRIGGERED RIFT?
Amid the supposed rift between them, there are several speculations as to what triggered what looks more like a family feud.
By her own admission, the senator claims that their strained relationship was caused by the people surrounding the President. Without dropping names, Senator Imee seemed to be referring to no less than the president’s wife — her sister-in-law, Liza Araneta-Marcos.
However, people past their sixties are toying on another story as the possible cause of the rift — that Senator Imee is not a “genuine” Marcos. During the time of the late strongman Ferdinand Sr. until the 90s, there were gossips that Ferdinand Sr. isn’t her biological father.
So do “tales” on Bongbong. According to the rumor mill, the “real” Ferdinand Jr. allegedly died in a ruckus while studying in London and that the person who has become the President is a copycat.
These are buzzes.
PALACE CLAIM
Another reason that could have agitated the strain is Senator Imee’s closeness to the Vice President Sara Duterte who has assumed the role of the opposition.
Interestingly, VP Sara is the daughter of the man who allowed Ferdinand Sr. to be laid to rest at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Worse, Senator Imee even initiated a Senate probe on what she claimed was an orchestrated move by the Marcos administration — from the arrest to the transit of the former president to The Hague.
Could the rift trigger the collapse of the country’s most powerful dynasty?
No, says a Palace official who insisted that the President has no rift with his sister despite the withdrawal from her brother’s Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate.
How I wish all other clans would also self-destruct, if only to spare the country from being held hostage by the “powers that may be.”