PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Manny Pacquiao (right) and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. INQUIRER FILES
Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Thursday painted a grim scenario of a win by the late dictator鈥檚 son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
At a press briefing on Thursday at the Iloilo City Hall following his courtesy call on Mayor Jerry Tre帽as, Pacquiao claimed that Marcos was only being projected as the front-runner in the presidential race by drug lords whose trade had been weakened by President Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 deadly war against narcotics.
He maintained that he had nothing personal against Marcos, but people should be made aware of the possibilities should the late dictator鈥檚 son be voted into office.
Pacquiao claimed that the Marcoses鈥� return to power could mean the obliteration of the ill-gotten wealth and tax cases against the family.
鈥淭hey want to return [to power], why? First, they would be cleared from taxes. Second, and this is their real goal I can see, all disputed properties, gold deposits, all that could be wiped clean and transferred to their personal accounts,鈥� he said in Filipino.
Pacquiao pointed out that once the Marcoses make their legal woes disappear, 鈥渢hey will become the world鈥檚 wealthiest family.鈥�
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