The Philippines: A Marcos back in power

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Polls in the Philippines are predicting a landslide victory for Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr, the son of former President and dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Marcos regime was synonymous with corruption, human rights abuses and excess, so how did a once-exiled family return and find favour again with the masses?

Guest: Nicole Curato, Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Canberra