Imee Marcos backs Sara Duterte, slams Philippine president’s ‘wicked’ campaign

Senators seeking to lock impeached Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte out of politics for good may face an uphill battle with one of her staunchest supporters calling the movement against her family “insane and wicked”.Senator Imee Marcos, the older sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, said it was a “tragedy” that her own family had been given a second chance and “instead of grabbing it and leveraging it into great development and prosperity for the Filipino people, we’ve just wasted it”.“It’s been wasted on this insane and wicked campaign against the Dutertes,” she said in an interview from her family’s ancestral home in Manila on Wednesday, as a painting of her mother Imelda and late dictator father Ferdinand Marcos Snr hung behind her. “stagflation is around the corner. It’s a very scary moment for Filipinos.”