First wordSOMEDAY, historians and political scientists will place Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.'s rise to the summit of Philippine politics in the company of Tony Blair's emergence in Great Britain and Junichiro Koizumi's burst to power in Japan.Every successful national leader probably believes that his march to power is sui generis .To seasoned political observers, however, there is nothing new in politics; there are only ingenious reinventions of the wheel.
In a series of hard-fought political battles, he challenged his own party, pulled it back from the verge of extinction, and led it to victory in the Upper House election of 2001.Koizumi was prime minister of Japan and president of the LDP from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009, and he remains the sixth longest serving prime minister in Japanese history.Marcos Jr.
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