Marcos Threatens Legal Action after Philippine Election Loss

Local Editor

Ferdinand Marcos’s son threatened legal action Saturday to reverse his narrow defeat in recent Philippine elections, which analysts said had been the family of the late dictator’s best chance to regain the presidency.

Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, a sitting senator, had aimed for the family’s biggest political victory since its humiliating downfall in 1986 after a "People Power" uprising ended 20 years of the family’s rule.

An official canvass showed Friday that Marcos, 58, lost the vice presidential contest to neophyte rival Leni Robredo by just over 263,000 votes.

But Marcos insisted he was potentially deprived of nearly four million votes through cheating and malfunctioning vote-counting machines, and was gathering evidence for a potential "election protest".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team