MANILA, Philippines– Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. rejected to react on Monday to a claims by his estranged sister, a legislator, that he has actually been a long time drug abuser whose drug reliance has actually threatened his administration, stating with a sad tone that he really did not intend to talk about a family members break in public.
Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro has actually claimed that Sen. Imee Marcos’ complaints versus her very own bro prior to a massive spiritual rally in Manila recently were “an internet of lies,” and might have been a hopeless effort to sidetrack recurring examinations right into a corruption rumor that might link her resistance allies in the Us senate.
Assistants have actually claimed in the past that Marcos Jr. had tested negative for drug and methamphetamine. When asked to react to his senior sibling’s accusations, the head of state briefly stopped briefly and after that claimed in a telecasted press conference: “It’s taboo to speak about family members issues normally in public. We do not such as to reveal our unclean bed linen in public.”
The head of state recommended that something was bothering her sibling. “The girl that you see chatting on television is not my sibling which sight is shared by our relatives, good friends, that it’s not her,” he claimed without specifying.
” That’s why we are concerned, we are extremely concerned concerning her. I wish she really feels much better quickly,” the head of state claimed. When asked if he intends to speak to her, Marcos claimed that he and his sibling “no more take a trip in the exact same circles, political or otherwise.”
Marcos, 68, and his sibling are youngsters of after that tyrant Ferdinand Marcos Sr., that was toppled in an army-backed however greatly relaxed “people power” uprising in 1986 after a tyrannical age that was infamous for civils rights and political suppression and plunder. The tyrant passed away in expatriation in Hawaii in 1989. His family members went back to the Philippines in 1991 and gradually restored a political grip.
Marcos Jr. won the presidency in 2022 with a landslide margin in among the best political returns in the Philippines.
In a speech Monday evening prior to a massive rally by a spiritual team in a Manila park, Imee Marcos claimed that her bro’s medicine dependency presumably began when their daddy was still a head of state and has actually remained to today. She asserted it has actually impacted his wellness and capacity to regulate.
Imee Marcos is a prominent ally of her bro’s severe doubter and precursor, Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte was detained on an International Lawbreaker Court warrant in March and flown to and restrained in the Netherlands for supposed criminal offenses versus humankind over his brutal anti-drug crackdowns that left hundreds of mainly bad suspects dead. Duterte has actually refuted any kind of misbehavior.
Duterte’s family members and allies, consisting of Imee Marcos, have actually condemned Marcos Jr. wherefore they assert was the ex-president’s prohibited apprehension and apprehension by the worldwide court. Duterte’s little girl, Vice Head of state Sara Duterte, is likewise among one of the most singing movie critics of the existing head of state however is a close ally of Imee Marcos.
