Bongbong Marcos, also known as Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., is a Filipino politician who served as a senator from 2010 to 2016.
He is the only son of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the former president, tyrant, and kleptocrat, and Imelda Romualdez Marcos, the former first lady.
Marcos Jr., then 23 years old, was elected vice governor of Ilocos Norte in 1980, running unopposed for his father’s Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party, which was dominating the Philippines under martial law at the time.
In 1983, he was elected governor of Ilocos Norte, a position he held until his family was deposed by the People Power Revolution and sent into exile in Hawaii in February 1986.
President Corazon Aquino finally permitted the remaining members of the Marcos family to return to the Philippines after his father’s death in 1989 to face various charges.
He and his mother are being detained in the United States and its territories for refusing to comply with a court order to pay US$353 million in restitution to victims of his father’s dictatorship’s human rights abuses.
From 1992 to 1995, Marcos was a member of the 2nd congressional district of Ilocos Norte. In 1998, Marcos stood for governor of Ilocos Norte and was re-elected.
After nine years as a legislator, he returned to the Nacionalista Party as a senator from 2010 to 2016. Marcos ran for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election 2015.
Marcos was defeated by Leni Robredo of Camarines Sur with a vote differential of 263,473 votes or 0.64 percent. Marcos responded by filing a Presidential Electoral Tribunal electoral protest.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Net Worth 2022
Ferdinand Marco has an estimated net worth of $10 billion.
