Sugar coating
As Australia’s former prime minister Scott Morrison has drawn international attention for his efforts to secretly grab power, the region’s newest leader is facing his own questions about power sharing – but while still in office.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr appointed himself agriculture secretary after he won the Philippines presidency in May, something only done twice before by his predecessors when they cautiously also took charge of Defence. But, perhaps not surprisingly, one of them was Marcos’ father in 1965. Marcos took on the unorthodox additional job because he wanted to make agriculture a key priority of his government, an understandable ambition in a fertile but populous country fretting about its dependence on imported food.
Filipinos are still coming to grips with just what they have done by handing the presidency to the son of the disgraced former 1970s…
