Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
MANY people have decided to look into the so-called revisionism strategy, adopted by the winner of the May 2022 elections. That they were years in preparation from the date he lost in 2016 (the subject of an electoral protest) to the presence of a troll army controlling social media and shaping the narratives, that the Robredo camp and some MSM were saying that the Marcoses had been planning May 2022 for the past five years.
In 2016, candidate Leni Robredo edged out former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. by 263,473 votes. Based on the official count of Congress sitting as the national board of canvassers, she garnered a total of 14,418,817 votes while Marcos finished second with 14,155,344 votes.
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