Breakingviews - Marcos clan’s return to Manila is awkwardly timed

The controversial Marcos clan returns to the peak of power in the Philippines at a tricky time. President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the late exiled autocrat accused of looting his country, inherits a $360 billion economy that grew 7.7% in the last quarter of 2021 from a year earlier. “Bongbong,” as he is known, has kept his agenda deliberately vague, but he will have trouble coasting on the infrastructure investment strategy that made his predecessor – and his father - so popular.