Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced his vice presidential bid last night on his official website after failed talks with Vice President Jejomar Binay and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in recent weeks.
“I have decided to run for vice president in the May 2016 elections,” Marcos said in his official website. Marcos, of the Nacionalista Party, said he is leaving it up to the Filipino people to judge whether he should be given another chance to serve the people in another capacity.

“Consequently, I have decided to put my political fortune in the hands of the Filipino people,” he said.
He is counting on the so-called Solid North, which has always delivered the needed votes for members of his clan, plus the support of Visayans in his mother’s home region to propel him to the nation’s second highest post.
“I humbly ask them to judge whether or not I am worthy of their trust to be vice president on the strength of my performance as a public servant in the last 26 years: first as vice governor and governor of Ilocos Norte, then as representative of the 2nd district of Ilocos Norte and, finally, as senator of the country,” Marcos said.

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