Quick Glance: Duterte's daughter is sworn in as the Philippines' vice president.
- MANILA, 19 JUNE (Reuters) - Sara Duterte-Carpio, the daughter of outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, was sworn in on Sunday as the country's 15th vice president, asking for national unity after a bitter election campaign.
- Duterte-Carpio, 44, was Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s running partner in the May 9 elections and will be sworn in as the country's president on June 30, the start of their six-year mandate.
- Duterte-Carpio, like her father, was a lawyer before joining politics in 2007, when she was elected as her father's vice mayor in Davao, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Manila.
Quick Glance: The Marcos family, who were formerly deposed by an uprising, achieves a landslide victory in the Philippines.
- MANILA — According to early results, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator whose family amassed billions of dollars, was elected president of the Philippines by a landslide, 36 years after his father was deposed in a historic revolution.
- On May 9, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the 64-year-old son of the former Philippine dictator, easily won the country's presidential election.
- Political dynasties rule in the Philippines, with the Marcos family being one of the most well-known.
- In 2015, Marcos said of his mother, "She's wanted me to become president since I was 3 years old,"
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Quick Glance: A new Marcos has arrived in Manila, and he wants a maritime agreement with China.
- Ferdinand "BongBong" Marcos Jr. arrives late Monday night at his campaign headquarters in Manila.
- Last year, the Philippines challenged the mooring of 220 Chinese warships in the Whitsun Reef area of the South China Sea, which Manila claims.
- Greg Poling, head of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in the United States, says Marcos would have "less room to manoeuvre" with China than Duterte did.
- Marcos supporters rejoice upon his electoral victory.
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