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Marcos describes Poe as his ‘sister’ in Senate

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“SISTER” was the word uttered by Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. when he was asked to describe independent presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe.

“I’m standing by it,” he told reporters during Thursday’s breakfast meeting at the Senate.

Since the late 1960s, the rumor had been going that Poe is an illegitimate daughter of Marcos’ father, the late President Ferdinand Marcos, with former actress Rosemarie Sonora, sister of Poe’s adoptive sister Susan Roces.

But Marcos considers it an urban legend while former First Lady Imelda Marcos merely laughs off the claim that Poe is a daughter of her late husband.

Breakfast forum. Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. fields questions during Thursday’s breakfast forum at the Senate. Lino Santos

The question on Poe’s biological parents emerged again when she aired her intention to run for president. After filing her candidacy for the presidency, the issue on her citizenship became the basis for the disqualification charges against her that are now pending with the Supreme Court.

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Poe insists that her adoptive mother, actress Susan Roces, had been telling her that she was found abandoned in a Catholic church in Jaro, Iloilo, and that she was later adopted by her and the late Fernando Poe Jr.   

Sought for his comment on Poe’s legal problems, Marcos said “she really has to weather the storm” and await the decision of the Supreme Court to decide what to do.

He described her running mate Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago as brilliant and former Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as his friends. He described Vice President Jejomar Binay as a rising presidential candidate after he again led in SWS’ presidential surveys.

He described the Edsa Revolution as “history,” the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law as “dead,” and the May 2016 elections as “critical.”

He described himself as “brilliant, nice, good, perfect. Who else would praise me but myself?”

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