PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINE ELECTION CANDIDATE IMELDA MARCOS GOES SHOPPING AND SAYS SHE COULD BE INSANE.

Record ID: 649124

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINE ELECTION CANDIDATE IMELDA MARCOS GOES SHOPPING AND SAYS SHE COULD BE INSANE.
  • Date: 16th May 1994
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (RECENT) (RTV-ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV IMELDA AND ENTOURAGE WALKING THROUGH SHOP 0.07 2. CU FOOT PULL BACK TO IMELDA TRYING ON PAIR OF SHOES 0.12 3. CU TILT DOWN SHELVES STACKED WITH SHOES 0.21 4. GV/CU IMELDA AND INTERVIEWER, INTERVIEWER ASKS IMELDA THE QUESTION " ARE YOU INSANE".(ENGLISH) 0.34 5. CU IMELDA ANSWERS "COULD BE,I COULD BE BECAUSE IN SPITE OF ALL THE UGLINESS IN THIS WORLD I HAVE NOT STOPPED TO DREAM. I AM A HOPELESS OPTIMIST,I AM A GREAT ROMANTICIST, WHEN I LOOK AT THINGS I LOOK AT THINGS ON THE POSITIVE, I AM A VERY POSITIVE PERSON.IN FACT THAT IS TRUE, IT WAS JUST WRITTEN THE OTHER DAY THAT SHE LIVES IN FANTASY, SHE IS STILL IN CLOUD NINE, SHE'S REALLY AN AIRHEAD, BUT I GET THINGS DONE.THE TEST OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING, YOU SEE EVERY THING THEY ARE PROUD OF HERE IN MANILA,THE CULTURAL CENTRE, THE HEART CENTRE, THE LUNG CENTRE, THE KIDNEY CENTRE, THE LUNETA PARK, THE BUILDING OF THE HOTELS,THE THIS AND THE THAT,THEY ARE THE HANDIWORK OF SOME KIND OF A DREAMER,AND AN AIRHEAD BUT A GREAT ROMANTICIST AND SOMEBODY WHO IS A HOPELESS OPTIMIST." (ENGLISH) 1.36 6. GV IMELDA AND INTERVIEWER STANDING IN ROOM. 1.46 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 31st May 1994 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
  • City:
  • Country: Phillippines
  • Reuters ID: LVA3R7HLXSBLV0JOP6WHOOR82E3
  • Story Text: Philippine election campaigns are dominated by eccentric candidates -- and they don't come much stranger than Imelda Marcos.

    Imelda, the former Philippine first lady whose shoe collection was once a symbol of gross corruption, is running for the House of Representatives in the national elections on Monday (May 8) from her native province of Leyte in the central Philippines.

    Asked if there was any truth to the suggestion she was insane, she replied with a cheerful: "Could be, I could be because in spite of all the ugliness in this world I have not stopped to dream." In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Marcos said she is a hopeless optimist and a great romanticist.

    "When I look at things,I look at things in a, on the positive. And I am a very positive person." "In fact that is true. It was just written the other day that she's still in fantasy, she's in cloud nine, she's really an airhead or whatever. But I get things done. The test of the pudding is in the eating." Marcos said that the Philippine people are proud of the architectural, cultural and welfare legacy of her late husband's rule, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

    "This legacy! could have been some kind of a handiwork of a dreamer and an airhead, a great romanticist and somebody who was a hopeless optimist." Marcos, 65, and currently fighting appeals both against a jail sentence for corruption and a disqualification from running for office, is not the only Marcos on the hustings.

    Her son, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, is also running for a Senate seat and drawing substantial crowds of enthusiasts at his campaign rallies.

    What amazes foreign observers and many Filipinos is that they may both win, less than a decade after they were forced to flee to the United States after a popular uprising overthrew President Marcos.

    Political analysts backed up by opinion polls believe there could be enough residual loyalty to the Marcoses to propel them both into office.


  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register