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IN 2022, the Philippines elected Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. as president and Sara Duterte as vice president with the highest number of votes in the nation's electoral history. Marcos got 31.6 million votes (58.7 percent of the total) and Duterte 32.2 million votes (61.53 percent) for a term of six years. Marcos did not join the nine other presidential candidates in all the pre-election debates, but the Shanghai-trained political analyst, Dr. Robin Garcia, saw him as "the continuity" candidate after ex-president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, who was elected president in 2016 as the "change candidate." Marcos' election reversed the verdict of...