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Me and my powerful lineage, the Philippine Marcos

36 years ago he fled with his family in a helicopter loaded with 24 gold bars, 413 jewels and 27 million pesos.

He is the son of a dictator and a former Miss Philippines who believed herself to be the Jaqueline Kennedy of Asia.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, better known as Bongbong, has managed to convince more than 30 million Filipinos at the polls that the looting and crimes that bear the signature of his surname never happened.

The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda with their son Marcos Jr