Ateneo de Davao University president Joel Tabora stood his ground as he referred to former senator and presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the son of a former dictator on Wednesday, October 13. "I don't know what we will call it. He issued martial law. He governed by decree. He was certainly a strongman. His decrees were law. That sounds very much to me like a dictator," said Father Tabora, referring to the late former president Ferdinand E. Marcos, who was ousted during the 1986 People Power Revolution. He called the candidates, "two former National Police chiefs, a son of a former president and dictator, a former world-class champion boxer, a former actor and current mayor, and a widow of a former mayor and the current vice president." Asked why he still persisted in calling Ferdinand Jr. a dictator's son amid attempts to revise the history of the Marcos years and tone down the description of the late dictator, Tabora said, "It's what the case was, and what we remember – what I can remember." https://www.rappler.com/nation/elections/ateneo-de-davao-president-tabora-calls-bongbong-marcos-dictator-son