Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, InterAksyon.com - MANILA, Philippines –With President Benigno Aquino III in Malacanang, Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos does not believe her husband, the late President Ferdinand Marcos, will get an “honorable burial.”
Asked to comment on Vice President Jejomar Binay’s statement that their family had agreed to bury her husband in his home province Ilocos Norte, Rep. Marcos did not give a categorical response, only saying the matter of his burial “is not a political decision.”
“It cannot and should not depend on surveys, or on any so-called Solomonic approach,” she said in a statement.
“President Noynoy Aquino himself confessed that he was biased on the issue of my husband’s proper burial, and that’s the reason he delegated the matter to Vice President Binay,” she added.
There is strong public opposition to allowing Marcos, who ruled as dictator for 14 years until toppled by the 1986 People’s Power uprising, to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, where past presidents are traditionally laid to rest.
However, a majority of the House of Representatives have signed a resolution, initiated by Sorsogon Rep. Salvador Escudero, a member of Marcos’ cabinet, to bury him at the Libingan.
In an earlier report, Binay said the former First Lady had agreed to bury her husband in Ilocos Norte.
But Rep. Marcos stressed that even before Binay could resolve the issue, Aquino had already told the Associated Press “that the honorable burial of President Ferdinand Marcos will never happen under his watch, not while he is president.”
“That made it clear that President Marcos would not get the honorable burial he rightfully deserves no matter what Vice President Binay’s survey shows,” she said.
