Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. confirmed on Friday that he would endorse a candidate for the 2028 presidential election, but said he had yet to decide who he would back.
With Philippine presidents limited by the constitution to a single, six-year term in office, Marcos had been expected to back a candidate, as his fierce political rival Sara Duterte makes early headway in opinion polls on the 2028 presidency.
At an event with foreign journalists on Friday, Marcos confirmed for the first time that he would endorse a candidate, but said choosing one now would be premature.
Ally-turned-enemy Duterte, the estranged vice president of Marcos, announced in February that she will contest the presidency in 2028, which came amid a huge fallout between the two scions of powerful political families, who ran together in the 2022 contest.
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