In an interview on ANC’s Headstart, Sen. Sergio “Serge” Osmeña III was asked what would be the effect of a Marcos being elected Vice President.
Osmeña said: “We will be the laughingstock of the world. I think so.”
“The senator is the grandson of the late Commonwealth President Sergio Osmeña. He was incarcerated for five years during the martial rule of Marcos’ father, the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. He escaped from a maximum security prison cell in Fort Bonifacio in 1977, along with ABS-CBN’s Eugenio Lopez Jr,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
Osmeña likewise said he’s reminded of the late Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s description of the Marcos family in the book, From Third World to First.
Osmena explained, “(Lee Kuan Yew) begins his part on the Philippines this way. ‘Now the Philippines is a completely different story. Nowhere in the world do you see the family of a dictator being allowed back into the country and running for public office.’ Even Lee Kuan Yew couldn’t understand it, so somebody as dumb as me can’t understand it either.”
