A Malacañang official on Sunday said this week’s commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution is not at all a form of “revenge” against those who ruled during martial law, particularly the family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos whose son, Ferdinand Jr, or Bongbong, is running for Vice President in the May 2016 elections.

“There is no truth to allegations that we are doing this so-called politics of revenge… The important issue here is freedom and justice. EDSA People Power was the response of Filipinos against martial law,” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said.

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