The elephant in the room
The elephant in the room
During his Jan. 25 ONE News TV channel interview, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. was asked why he did not participate in GMA-TV’s Jessica Soho interview with four other candidates for President. One of the two interviewers referred to the need to explain his refusal as “the elephant in the room”— as the most obvious question that had to be addressed.
His answers to that question were indicative of Marcos Junior’s mindset and his capacity to provide some sense of what his program of government is, if any. But equally important is whether and how much his background, track record, and experience would shape his administration should he be elected to the post he and his family have long coveted.
Those issues are in fact the more obvious elephants in the room. But the reasons for his refusal to be interviewed with four other aspirants also suggested that his running for President is driven by nothing nobler than his ambition to follow his father’s footsteps. One of those reasons seems to be his fear of any one of his four opponents’ coming off as better equipped for the Presidency than he. But he said it was because broadcaster Soho was “biased,” by which he meant “anti-Marcos.”
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