Marcos skips sister in Alyansa’s Cavite sortie; Imee says okay

Sen. Imee Marcos and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

MANILA, Philippines — After Sen. Imee Marcos announced that she would be skipping the campaign rallies of the administration’s senatorial slate to focus on probing former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest, her brother President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. skipped her while introducing candidates in a sortie in Cavite on Friday.

In his campaign speech, President Marcos introduced each senatorial bet of the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas.

INQUIRER.net has yet to confirm whether the president overlooked his sister deliberately, but all candidates were mentioned, including Camille Villar, who like Sen. Marcos, was also not present during the sortie.

Sen. Marcos brushed it off.

“K lang, tutal sinabi ko na, na ang aking tututukan ay ang pagsisiyasat ng mga pangyayaring labag sa batas noong kinuha si FPRRD (former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte),” she said in a statement to reporters.

(It’s okay, after all, I already said that I would focus on investigating the illegal events that took place when former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte was taken.)

Last March 11, Duterte was arrested and sent to a detention center in The Hague in The Netherlands on the order of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

He is facing a case at the ICC for crimes against humanity he allegedly committed during his administration’s war against drugs.

The drug war left at least 6,000 people dead, according to government data. However, human rights groups reported that at least 20,000 were killed during the campaign.