BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court, allows of Ferdinand Marcos at "Libingan ng mga Bayani"

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November 08, 2016
Philippines ~ The Supreme Court decision puts to land the business of a hero's burial for Marcos, which has been a divisive one for in the region of 25 years.

The Supreme Court has issued a status quo ante order (SQAO), which was elongated twice, around the burial decision. The order, first issued in August, prevented Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, the Department of National Defense, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and others from proceeding once preparations for the hero's burial. In September 7, the tall court elongated the SQAO, postponing the initial plot to bury Marcos on September 18  the late president's 99th birthday. Solicitor General Jose Calida argued in the back the Supreme Court that Marcos is qualified to be interred at the Heroes' Cemetery because there is no longer a "national trauma" caused by the martial law. As proof, Calida cited the 14 million Filipinos who voted for Marcos' son, Bongbong Marcos, for vice president in the last elections. He drifting by taking into consideration again 200,000 votes to Leni Robredo. For the second era, the Supreme Court outstretched its stay order to November 8 because several justices were yet writing their remove opinions almost the order of the matter.

The long road to a hero's burial Marcos's remains have been interred and preserved in an airconditioned relatives mausoleum in Ilocos Norte by now 1993. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii upon September 28, 1989, three and a half years after he was deposed by the People Power chaos. People Power swept his challenger and the parable of opposition to the Marcos tyranny the housewife Corazon Aquino  to the running from 1986 to 1992. Following her death in 2009, her son Benigno Aquino III, won the elections and served as president from 2010 to 2016. Aquino was succeeded by Duterte, who won the presidential elections in May 2016.

"He (the late President Marcos) is credited to be buried there. Kung ayaw ng ibang Pilipino, okay fine!" Duterte said afterward. "Mag-demonstrate kayo, go ahead. You can use the streets," he added.

[Translation: "He is credited to be buried there. If added Filipinos don't ache this, suitable. You can excite, press on. You can use the streets."] Duterte has always believed the event upon Marcos' burial has been a source of estrangement along in the middle of Filipinos.

"The Law allows it. It's not Duterte or whoever. It's the Law!"


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