IN three days, President Rodrigo Duterte leaves Malacañang with the International Criminal Court's probe of the drug war-related violations hanging over his head, and leaving behind a country heavily in debt and corruption at its worst.

At the same time, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. assumes the presidency with high expectations that he would keep his positive and hopeful message of unity, which gave him the third-highest mandate of 58.7 percent of votes in Philippine election history, next to Ramon Magsaysay's 68.9 percent in 1953 and Manuel Quezon's 67.9 percent in 1935.

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