Political dynasty in the Philippines
Political dynasties have long been a part of the political scene in the Philippines. After the Philippine Revolution, when the First Republic of the Philippines was created, political dynasties began to emerge. With the decline of Spain's economic power and international prestige in the nineteenth century, the spread of British and American influence around the world, and the political current of emerging nationalism among the children of the economically enfranchised bourgeois, the power of the peninsulares, or Spanish-born aristocracy, declined precipitously.
Following the Spanish defeat in the Spanish–American War, the surviving members of the Spanish or Spanish-sanctioned landholding elite, as well as the newly ascendant merchant elite, who were mostly foreign expatriates or of Chinese origin, formed a de facto aristocracy to fill the power vacuum left by the Spanish. Political dynasties continued to adapt over time, as newer dynasties emerged to fill power vacuums left by the extinction of older dynasties. Aristocracy survived and prospered under the American colonial regime, and remained a permanent fixture in Philippine society even after the Philippines' independence was finally confirmed following the devastation of the Philippines under the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
Members of these political dynasties now hold the majority of open seats in the Philippine government. The Aquino, Marcos, Magsaysay, Binay, Duterte, and Roxas families are among the most prominent Philippine political dynasties." Despite the public's negative reaction to political dynasties and the association between dynastic activities and corruption,[1] it is only prohibited among members of the youth-oriented Sangguniang Kabataan.
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