In Waray bailiwick, Imelda is stage mom to Marcos Jr

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In Waray bailiwick, Imelda is stage mom to Marcos Jr
During the vice presidential candidate’s sorties in Eastern Visayas, Mrs Marcos makes sure she's at the forefront of courting the votes of the Warays for his son

Mothers are their children’s biggest fans. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos is no different toward her son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

During the vice presidential candidate’s sorties in Eastern Visayas this week, Mrs Marcos made sure she was at the forefront of courting the votes of the Warays for his son.

Imelda, now congresswoman of her husband’s home province of Ilocos Norte, hails from Eastern Visayas. She was a 3-term congresswoman of Leyte.

Mrs Marcos was often seen together with his departed husband’s junior, greeting voters and being a stage mother. And since this was the first time Mrs Marcos joined her son’s sortie since his proclamation rally in Ilocos Norte in February, she became the focus of media interest.

Not only did she keep her boy close to her during the whole Samar and Leyte trail, she also didn’t mind talking to the media or being photographed when they visited the cities of Catbalogan, Tacloban, and some rural areas.

“It’s fun to be with my hometown again and to see my old friends again,” she said. 

“Campaigning for votes is not all easy and fun enough for me, especially that I am 86 years old and it takes a lot of patience,” Imelda said.

Of course, the Rose of Tacloban did not miss the chance to pitch for a better future for her fellow Warays should her son get elected.

“Pero ginhihimo ko ini diri la para hit akon anak nga hi Bongbong kundi para hiton mga igkasi ko Waray-waray,” she said. (I am doing this  not only for my son Bongbong but for my fellow Waray-waray.)

“I just hope and appeal to all my fellow ‘Waray-waray’ to choose my son Bongbong because I know the country and the entire Eastern Visayas would become better,” she said. – Jazmin Bonifacio/Rappler.com

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