Imelda, Bongbong take oath at Supreme Court

LAOAG CITY -- Twenty-four years after their family was toppled from power, former first lady Imelda Marcos and son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. made a political comeback and took their oath of office at the Supreme Court Wednesday.

Mrs. Marcos, incoming congresswoman of Ilocos Norte’s second district, and her senator-elect son took their oaths before Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta.

The inauguration was held at the SC dignitary’s lounge at 2:45 p.m., said Sol Vanzi, spokesperson for the former first lady.

Vanzi said the Marcoses chose Peralta because “he is an Ilocano.”

A member of the special division of Sandiganbayan that convicted deposed President Joseph Estrada of plunder, Peralta hails from Laoag City.

Another Marcos scion, Imee, who won the gubernatorial race in Ilocos Norte, did not join her mother and brother in the oath-taking ceremony.

“Imee took her oath in the province because she led local provincial winners in Ilocos,” Vanzi said.

The election of Bongbong to the Senate gave the Marcos family their highest nationally elected post since Ferdinand Sr. was elected president in 1965 and ruled for two decades, half of that under martial law.

The Marcos patriarch was ousted in a military-backed uprising in 1986.