Word: nacionalistas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost Too Good. The final results may not be tabulated for weeks. But incomplete returns show Marcos and his Nacionalista Party beating Liberal Party Candidate Sergio Osmeña Jr. by perhaps 1,700,000 out of 7,000,000 votes counted so far. The scope of Marcos' victory was almost embarrassing. As he met with his supporters in Malacañang Palace to claim victory late in the evening of election day, he was leading in every single precinct then reporting. "How can that be?" complained Osmeña. "This is the dirtiest election we have ever...
...opportunity to win control of his often rebellious Senate. Dressed in sport shirt and slacks, he showed up at as many as four campaign rallies a night and traveled 10,000 miles around the country, asking the electorate to keep the Philippines "on the move" by voting for his Nacionalista Party candidates...
Many in the Philippines felt that Marcos needlessly imperiled his programs by tying them to the outcome of local elections, but the gamble paid off. When the votes were counted, Marcos had won an overwhelming victory. Filipino voters elected 50 Nacionalista governors, 1,050 Nacionalista mayors-including those of every important city except Manila-and six Nacionalista senators, enough to give Marcos the majority he needed. So lopsided was the vote, in fact, that it seemed to make the youthful President an almost certain winner if, as expected, he decides to run for re-election...
...Liberal Party candidate for city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into...
...islands and thus helping the country's lagging industrial growth to catch up with the rise in population, requires foreign investments of at least $1 billion. Because he has lost control of the Senate to the opposition Liberal Party and a handful of defectors from his own Nacionalista Party, Marcos has been unable to get through the laws that he needs to attract money from abroad. His plan to distribute land to the peasants has run aground on the obduracy of the landlords and the ineffectiveness of his own administrators. He has made some headway in rooting out corrupt...