Imelda, Bongbong to take oath at Supreme Court today

MANILA, Philippines - Twenty-four years after their family was toppled from power, former first lady Imelda Marcos and son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. have made a political comeback and will take their oath of office at the Supreme Court (SC) today.

Mrs. Marcos, incoming congresswoman of Ilocos Norte’s second district, and her senator-elect son will take their oaths before Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta.

The inauguration will be held at the SC dignitary’s lounge at 2:45 p.m., according to Sol Vanzi, spokesperson for the former first lady.

Vanzi said that the Marcoses chose Peralta because “he is an Ilocano.”

A member of the special division of Sandiganbayan that convicted deposed President Joseph Estrada of plunder, Peralta hails from Laoag City.

Another Marcos scion, Imee, who won the gubernatorial race in Ilocos Norte, is not joining her mother and brother in the oath-taking ceremony.

“Imee will take her oath in the province because she’ll be leading the local provincial winners in Ilocos,” Vanzi said.

The election of Bongbong to the Senate gives the Marcos family their highest nationally elected post since Ferdinand Sr. was elected president in 1965 and ruled for two decades, half of that under martial law. The Marcos patriarch was ousted in a military-backed uprising in 1986.