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Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. born September 13, 1957, commonly referred to as
Bongbong Marcos and by his initials, BBM, is a Filipino politician who served as a senator from
2010 to 2016. He is the second child and only son of former president and dictator Ferdinand
Marcos Sr. and former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

In 1980, the 23-year-old Marcos Jr. became vice governor of Ilocos Norte, running
unopposed under the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party of his father, who was ruling the Philippines
under martial law at the time. He then became governor of Ilocos Norte in 1983, holding that office
until his family was ousted from power by the People Power Revolution and fled into exile in
Hawaii in February 1986. After the death of his father in 1989, President Corazon Aquino
eventually allowed the remaining members of the Marcos family to return to the Philippines to face
various charges.

Marcos was elected as representative of Ilocos Norte's 2nd congressional district from 1992
to 1995. Marcos ran for and was elected governor of Ilocos Norte again in 1998. After nine years, he
returned to his previous position as representative from 2007 to 2010, then became senator under
the Nacionalista Party from 2010 to 2016.

In 2015, Marcos ran for vice president in the 2016 election. With a difference of 263,473
votes, 0.64 percent difference, Marcos lost to Camarines Sur representative Leni Robredo. In
response, Marcos filed an electoral protest at the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. His petition was
later unanimously dismissed after the pilot recount of the chosen provinces of Negros Oriental,
Iloilo and Camarines Sur resulted in Robredo widening her lead even more by 15,093 additional
votes.

In 2021, Marcos announced his candidacy for president of the Philippines in the upcoming
2022 election, under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP).

Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., nicknamed 'Bongbong', was born on September 13, 1957, to
Ferdinand E. Marcos and Imelda Remedios Visitacion Romualdez. His father Ferdinand Sr. was
representative of the Second District of Ilocos Norte when he was born, and became senator two
years later. His godfathers included prominent Marcos cronies Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr.,:
286 and pharmaceuticals magnate Jose Yao Campos.

Marcos first studied at the Institucion Teresiana and La Salle Greenhills in Manila, where he
obtained his kindergarten and elementary education, respectively.

In 1970, Marcos was sent to England where he lived and studied at the Worth School, an all-
boys Benedictine institution in West Sussex, England. He was studying there when his father
declared martial law throughout the Philippines in 1972.

He then enrolled at St Edmund Hall, Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
(PPE). However, despite his false claims that he graduated with a bachelor of arts in PPE, he did not
obtain such a degree. Marcos had passed philosophy, but failed economics, and failed politics twice,
thus making him ineligible for a degree. Instead, he received a special diploma in social studies,
which is an award to be taken mainly by non-graduates according to British academic
administrator Sir Norman Chester.

Marcos enrolled in the Masters in Business Administration program at the Wharton School
of Business, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States, which he failed to complete.
Marcos asserts that he withdrew from the program for his election as vice governor of Ilocos Norte
in 1980. The Presidential Commission on Good Government later reported that his tuition,
USD10,000 monthly allowance, and the estate he lived in while studying at Wharton, were paid
using funds that could be traced partly to the intelligence funds of the Office of the President, and
partly to some of the 15 bank accounts that the Marcoses had secretly opened in the US under
assumed names.

Marcos Jr. was thrust into the national limelight as early as when he was three years old,
and the scrutiny became even more intense when his father first ran for president of the
Philippines in 1965, when he was age eight. During his father's 1965 campaign, Bongbong played
himself in the Sampaguita Pictures film Iginuhit ng Tadhana: The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story, a
biopic that is alleged to be heavily based on the portrayal of Ferdinand Marcos in the novel For
Every Tear a Victory. The young Marcos was portrayed giving a speech towards the end of the film,
in which he says that he would like to be a politician when he grows up. The public relations value
of the film is credited for having helped the elder Marcos win the 1965 Philippine elections.

Although he was technically a minor at the exact year martial law was declared, Marcos Jr.
turned 18 in 1975 - a year after he graduated from Worth school.

Bongbong Marcos' first formal role in a political office came with his election as vice
governor of Ilocos Norte (1980–1983) at the age of 23. In 1983, he led a group of young Filipino
leaders on a 10-day diplomatic mission to China to mark the 10th anniversary of Philippine-Chinese
relations. Marcos Jr. became the vice governor of Ilocos Norte in 1980. He then became the
province's governor from 1983 until the People Power Revolution in 1986 which ousted his family
from power.

During Bongbong Marcos' term, at least two extrajudicial killings took place in Ilocos Norte,
as documented by the Martial Law Victims Association of Ilocos Norte (MLVAIN).

His father appointed him chair of the board of Philippine Communications Satellite Corp
(Philcomsat) in early 1985. In a prominent example of what Finance Minister Jaime Ongpin later
branded "crony capitalism", the Marcos administration had sold its majority shares to Marcos
cronies such as Roberto S. Benedicto, Manuel H. Nieto, Jose Yao Campos, and Rolando Gapud in
1982, despite being very profitable because of its role as the sole agent for the Philippines' link to
global satellite network Intelsat. President Marcos acquired a 39.9% share in the company through
front companies under Campos and Gapud. This allowed him to appoint his son as the chair of the
Philcomsat board in early 1985, allowing Bongbong Marcos to draw a monthly salary "ranging from
US$9,700 to US$97,000" despite rarely visiting the office and having no duties there. Philcomsat
was one of five telecommunications firms sequestered by the Philippine government in 1986.

After his father's death in 1989, President Corazon Aquino permitted the return of the
remaining members of the Marcos family to the Philippines to face various charges.[7] Bongbong
Marcos was among the first to return to the Philippines. He arrived in the country in 1991 and soon
sought political office, beginning in the family's traditional bailiwick in Ilocos Norte.