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Manuel L. Quezon III

@mlq3

14 Nov

So the past few days, down to this morning, a thread. The image we should bear in mind, is Goya's famous painting of Saturn devouring his son.

The original dilemma: FMJr. was a candidate representing the ruling coalition, yes, but leaving the President and his people without a viable contribution and thus no guarantee FM Jr. will have their back.

This situation arose because the President and Go and even Daughterte took a hit from Pharmally, but the President and Go took the biggest hit, meaning Go had to slide down and the President had to bow out of running. This left Daughterte.

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Manuel L. Quezon III

@mlq3

11 Nov

A quick thread on where we seem to be. While every ruling coalition will have its fair share of longstanding leaders, it also means a rearrangement of the pecking order.

The faces of the ruling coalition we shouldn’t fail to forget, included a new paramount family. As the hierarchy is reconfigured the ones who do best are those who recognize it and demonstrate they know it.

Each President manages differently but there are types of President and that includes those who freely delegate their powers to those they consider able and useful subordinates. Thus factions are created, and the President had two major ones within the ranks of the old reliables.

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Manuel L. Quezon III

@mlq3

11 Oct

https://twitter.com/mlq3/status/1447363203487309827

Where the political class stands as of the deadline for officially filing candidacies, a thread taking off from my piece yesterday.

https://twitter.com/mlq3/status/1447363203487309827

As I wrote some time ago, because of a six year presidential term with no reelection and because every administration has a fixed majority for its useful life, when that useful life ends, nearly everyone suddenly becomes opposition, which is why real oppositionists get edged out.

Since administrations more often than not have little effect on who replaces them, their energies are better spent strategically placing people in institutions like the SC to ensure persecution of them is ineffective: GMA was best at this. So-called machinery counts for little.

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Manuel L. Quezon III

@mlq3

10 Oct

For #ScholarlySunday a series of links to interesting papers, books, and documents.
1. The passing of Chito Gascon, who was the youngest commissioner, points to this essential reference on the thinking behind our present charter: archive.org/details/record…

Here is Vol. II of the 1987 ConCom Journal: archive.org/details/record…

Here is Vol. III of the 1987 ConCom Journal: archive.org/details/record…

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Manuel L. Quezon III

@mlq3

21 Sep

What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon. Why Marcos wanted you to forget what was actually happening on Sept. 21-23.

1. September 21, 1972. Manila Times, Taliba, and Daily Express.

What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon. Why Marcos wanted you to forget what was actually happening on Sept. 21-23.

2. September 22, 1972. Reporting what happened Sept. 21, including the rally. Manila Times, Taliba,

What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon.

3. September 23, 1972.
a. The Manila Times*
b. An explanation of how some issues came out before the paper was shut down.
c. The Manila Chronicle*
*shut down by Marcos

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