Imee Marcos withdraws from admin Senate slate to ‘defend brother, mates’

Sen. Imee R. Marcos –Senate Public Relations and Info Bureau

MANILA, Philippines — It’s official: Senator Imee Marcos stated she was withdrawing from the administration’s Senate slate.

In a press convention on Monday, she stated the choice was meant to guard her youthful brother President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. from being positioned in danger and to defend her mates from getting damage.

“Para hindi na malagay sa alanganin ang kapatid ko, kasi kinakabahan na nga siya baka ano uncooked – eh, ‘yung aking ading e baka malagay pa sa alanganin at ‘yung mga kaibigan [ay] masaktan, maigi na ‘yung tumayo akong magazine isa kahit napakahirap tumayong magazine isa,” Sen. Marcos advised reporters.

(To maintain my brother from getting right into a troublesome state of affairs, since he’s already nervous about what may occur – and to keep away from placing my little brother in danger or inflicting my mates to get damage, it’s higher for me to face alone, despite the fact that standing alone is absolutely laborious.)

In accordance with Marcos, she was nicely conscious of the hardships that she would face together with her choice. She, nevertheless, emphasised that she must be “free and robust” to “cross the road, discuss to all events and get issues finished.”

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“Maraming nagsasabi midday na ako’y namamangka sa dalawang ilog. Ang ninanais ko ay ako ang daan kung saan magtatagpo ang lahat ng ilog. Tangway, ika nga sa atin. It’s an amazing sacrifice to face alone,” stated the senator.

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(Many individuals are saying that I’m crusing in two rivers, however what I intend to do is to be the trail the place all rivers meet. A peninsula, as we’d say.)

“Uniteam was a dream that I shared in 2022. And I maintain quick to that dream of unity for all Filipinos,” she added.

Marcos was later requested if this meant that she was withdrawing from her brother’s official Senate slate, to which she answered: “Sure, apparent ba (Isn’t it apparent)?”

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The senator then admitted that she had not mentioned the matter but with President Marcos, however she did inform her mom about it.

“Yung nanay ko nalulungkot eh. Sabi niya, bakit naman gano’n? Sabi ko, mas maganda naman para sa pamilya, para sa kabutihan ng lahat. Para nakakausap natin lahat ng sektor, meron tayong daan na makisuyo sa iba’t ibang panig. At yun naman ang turo ng aking ama, isang bansa, isang diwa. Huwag tayo magkawatak-watak,” she stated.

(My mom acquired unhappy. She requested me why it turned like that. I stated it will be higher for the household, for the nice of everybody. So we will interact with all sectors and have a approach to attain out to completely different sides. That’s what my father taught us: one nation, one spirit. Let’s not be divided.)

Pressed to elaborate on whether or not or not she intends to resolve the supposed rift between her brother and Vice President Sara Duterte, the senator stated it was solely “secondary,” subsequent to her want to face free and alone.

Final September 26, President Marcos introduced the 12 senatorial candidates he’s endorsing for the 2025 elections. The Marcos administration’s senatorial slate are members of the newly-formed political coalition “Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas.”