MAURO GIA SAMONTE
IN the run-up to the presidency in 2016, it was a popular piece of gossip that in the event of a Duterte win, he would relinquish the last three years of his term to the vice president — thereby ushering another era of a Marcos president. That was how popularly perceived a win of then Sen. Bongbong Marcos in the vice presidential race against then Rep. Leni Robredo of Camarines Sur. Eventual events would indicate that there was more truth to the issue than gossip. Shortly after assuming the presidency, President Duterte finally wrote finish to the decades-old struggle of the Marcos family to have the remains of President Ferdinand E. Marcos buried at the resting place for Philippine heroes, the Libingan ng mga Bayani.