Part of the speculations about her was that certain decisions believed to be taken by President Yar’Adua were indeed taken by her..
Her Phillipine Counterpart however proved The First Lady could hold the top position .Operation Turai For President has failed woefully culminating in the sad demise of her husband Late President Yar'adua. We look at Imelda Marcos once know for her beauty and love of shoes try one last time to stay First Lady and President.
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Marcos spectre hovers over Manila
NICK MEO, MANILA
May 8, 2010
THE beauty is faded now, and needs a lot of rouge, but the striking woman in bright orange, adorned with heart-shaped jewels on a lapel and on her fingers, is impossible to ignore.
At 80, the disgraced former first lady of the Philippines is trying for an extraordinary political comeback in the country's elections on Monday.
She is running for a seat in the lower house and campaigning hard for her son Ferdinand junior, known as Bongbong, who is standing for the Senate.
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The return of Imelda Marcos - indeed, of anyone bearing the family's name - to a position of power in the Philippines would have been unthinkable 24 years ago.
Back then, Mrs Marcos was reviled after she and her husband had been driven from office and out of the country, which they had looted of an estimated $10 billion during their authoritarian 20-year rule - the notoriety she joked about.
There is still the charisma of power about her, even after years of hatred and mockery - which were unfair because, in her view, her husband Ferdinand was simply the best thing that ever happened to the Philippines.
''I am running for office to fight for truth and beauty,'' she says. The election could transform the Marcos fortunes, one way or another.
The family is now in the camp of presidential contender Manuel Villar, a senator and self-made property billionaire who started life in a Manila slum. He has spoken favourably about burying the late president in Manila's National Heroes Cemetery and, because he needs her family's political support, would be expected not to pursue corruption cases against Madam Imelda with much vigour.
But the presidential favourite is ''Noynoy'' Aquino, son of Cory Aquino, a hated enemy of the Marcos family who died last August.
After her husband was shot dead at Manila Airport in 1983 - probably on the orders of President Marcos - Mrs Aquino led the campaign to oust Marcos, and then became the Philippines' first democratically elected president.
Noynoy Aquino has promised that if he wins there will be a crackdown on corruption, a prospect that must send shivers down Mrs Marcos's spine.
''He has little experience of governing,'' she sniffs, then adds: ''My son is a capable boy. He would make a good president.''
Filipino voters could be forgiven for thinking that the ghosts of the past are back to haunt them.
If Mrs Marcos has her way, Ferdinand Marcos, backed by the strong-willed and charismatic Imelda, could one day rule them again.
Moral of this story: What one Woman Can do another can do even Better !
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