The past few days witnessed a political earthquake that split the family and rocked the Philippines, one for the books. The INC rally didn’t just shake the Marcos Presidency – it exposed the rot in Philippine politics for all the world to see.
It is very surreal. This supposed “transparency rally” detonated a political bombshell in the form of Senator Imee Marcos’s very emotional tirade against his brother. Indeed, it was a political earthquake that splits the family further.
It is dominating online conversations and mainstream media headlines in the past few days – a family meltdown on an extremely public scale, and possibly a political order cracking under its own weight. This event splintered the family and sent shockwaves throughout the Philippines. There were no innuendos, no beating around the bush. It was a flat-out accusation that the President, the First Lady, and their children have struggled with long-term drug use. And all of it was straight from Senator Imee’s mouth, in front of 600,000+ people (and the whole Philippines, of course, who were watching online or on mainstream media).
It was a declaration on a national stage that the Marcos house is divided. This political earthquake that splits the family is indicative of PH politics, rife with dysfunction; however, this is definitely one of the most sensational in the entire history of the Philippines.
Riding the Shockwaves all the way to 2028
And VP Sara has this to say: the President is facing “a profound crisis of confidence” – pertaining to the flood-control scandal.
It’s not just criticism. It is part of the shockwaves of Senator Imee’s bombshell declaration, capitalizing on ex-representative Zaldy Co’s revelation, implicating PBBM and Speaker Martin Romualdez in the flood-control scandal. This paints a picture of a political earthquake that shook the familial bonds and created a chasm across the Philippines.
She is seeing the house of cards falling down, and makes sure to do her part to tip it just a little bit more.
All of this is not just corruption outrage over ghost flood projects. It is the UniTeam alliance’s death rattle accelerating toward 2028 chaos, showing how the political earthquake rocked the Philippines.
An Alliance Decomposing in Real Time
The UniTeam alliance — that “marriage of convenience” between the Marcos and Duterte camps — is not merely dead. It is decomposing in real time. Reflecting back, the political earthquake significantly rocked the whole nation, starting with the family.
And with this collapse comes a deeper truth exposed – our political system remains unstable. It is built on dynasties, bargain alliances, and personality cults that crumble the moment interests diverge.
What we are witnessing is not just the implosion of the Marcos presidency. Yes, the political earthquake these past few days was about corruption, drugs, dynastic infighting, and bloc-vote rallies. But at the heart of it, it is really the dysfunction of the Philippine political system, laid bare, for all the world to see.
We can be ashamed of it, frustrated, sad, whatever. But I feel that we need to continue to be angry, and demand accountability from everyone, no exceptions. Indeed, it’s a political earthquake that continues to echo across time.