The three ‘ronins’ mark decay of Philippine political system

This has never happened before, and something like this would be laughed at if it happened in any other presidential system in the world.

Three senators – Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Antonio Trillanes 3rd, and Alan Peter Cayetano – have declared or will be declaring that they are running for vice president in next year’s elections as “independents.” That’s a very kind term for what they are: candidates who either have been rejected by viable presidential candidates (in Cayetano and Trillanes’ case) or “cant’ get along” with one (Marcos, apparently).