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What she lacks in credibility she easily makes up in chutzpah. Just minutes after pleading not guilty to six criminal charges, former First Lady Imelda Marcos stood on the courthouse steps to announce her bid to succeed Corazon Aquino as President of the Philippines...
...Marcos are still pending, the ex-First Spouse's entry into the presidential race is being taken seriously in some quarters; the masses can expect a long season of free entertainment and handouts. But her quest to secure the nomination of the opposition Nacionalista Party could divide the anti-Aquino forces...
While the press would love to see a reprise of the "war of the widows," Aquino has insisted on 92 different occasions that she will not seek re- election in May. She even sang her message on one occasion, warbling to the tune of I'll Never Smile Again an off-key rendition of I'll Never Run Again...
...trivial victory, but Imelda watchers were already keeping score in what Manila's press has dubbed the "war of the widows." Aquino had conceded the first point by reversing her ban on Marcos' return after a Swiss judge ruled that the former First Lady must be found guilty in a Philippine court before the government could hope to recoup an estimated $350 million in "ill-gotten wealth" from frozen Marcos accounts in Swiss banks. Aquino also agreed to allow interment of the still unburied body of the late President Marcos in his home province. But Imelda insists on a hero...
Whether she chooses to run or not, her return signaled the unofficial start of the 1992 presidential campaign. "My role as First Lady was to bring out what was good and beautiful in the Filipino people," she said, "but I was perceived as Marie Antoinette." Aquino, claimed Imelda, "employs 16 world- known public relations firms to package her." Most analysts do not underestimate Imelda's influence on a citizenry that is disillusioned with the democratic government that displaced the dictatorship...