SENATOR OF THE

PHILIPPINES

SENATOR IMEE MARCOS

IMEE MARCOS
Maria Imelda Josefa Remedios "Imee" Romualdez Marcos[5]
 (Tagalog: [ˈaɪmi ˈmaɾkɔs]; born November 12, 1955) is a Filipina
politician and former actress serving as a Senator since 2019.
She is the daughter of Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady 
Imelda Marcos and the older sister of the current president, 
Bongbong Marcos.[6] She previously served as governor of Ilocos
Norte from 2010 to 2019 and as representative of Ilocos Norte's 
2nd district from 1998 to 2007.
mee Marcos's political career began during her father's martial law regime. She
became a member of the Batasang Pambansa and Chairperson of the 
Kabataang Barangay (KB). It was during her KB term that activist Archimedes
Trajano was abducted, tortured, and murdered shortly after publicly questioning
her appointment to the office.[7] She turned 18—the age of majority in the
Philippines—just fourteen months after her father's declaration of Martial Law,[8]
 and was already 30 years old by the time her family were ousted from power in
the 1986 People Power revolution, after which they were helped by the United
States government to flee and were brought to Honolulu.
After the death of Ferdinand Marcos in 1989, President 
Corazon Aquino allowed the Marcoses to return to the
Philippines in 1991.[9] Imee soon ran for political office,
and won three terms in the House of Representatives
and three terms as governor of Ilocos Norte. She was
elected to the Senate in the 2019 elections
Imee Marcos's conviction in the 1993 Trajano v. Marcos case (978 F 2d 493)
before the U.S. district court in Honolulu is noted in U.S. legal circles for
exposing the weaknesses of the act of state doctrine, allowing for similar suits
to be filed.
She has been linked to the stolen wealth of her family, identified as a
beneficiary of various Marcos offshore holdings as revealed in the 
Panama Papers[16] and the findings in the court convictions of her mother
Imelda Marcos.[17] These holdings were defined as "ill-gotten wealth" by the 
Supreme Court of the Philippines, and are the subject of repatriation efforts by
the Presidential Commission on Good Government.
Early life

Imee Marcos was born on November 12, 1955, in Mandaluyong

 (then a municipality in Rizal) as the eldest child of former
president Ferdinand Marcos, and former first lady Imelda Marcos
, both of whom exercised autocratic rule over the Philippines
from December 1965 to February 1986.[20] She has three other
siblings: Bongbong Marcos, a former senator and currently 
president;[21] Irene Marcos-Araneta,;[22] and Aimee Marcos, who
was adopted.
Marcos grew up as a young child in the Malacañan Palace, the
official residence of the president. She turned ten years old the
day after her father was elected in 1965. In an interview with her
family-backed Filipinas Magazine in 1999, she admitted that she
was uncomfortable living in the palace because it was too
confining, very formal, and fixed. She also added that it is "not
necessarily the most appropriate place to bring up a kid but it
was quite nice“.
While living at the palace, Marcos claimed that she attended
"regular" schools in Manila, but had to discontinue as the First
Family found it difficult to go out because of protest rallies
outside Malacañang. The rallies, all of which were faced with
military assaults which led to numerous Filipino deaths, were in
response to her family's deadly conjugal dictatorship that lasted
for more than two decades.
Education

During the 2019 elections, Marcos's educational background has

been steeped in controversy. Under her parents' conjugal
dictatorship, Marcos falsified her graduation from at least four
schools (including three universities), falsely claiming that she
graduated as "Cum Laude" and "class valedictorian" in two public
occasions.
Primary and secondary education

•Marcos attended the Institucion Teresiana (now 

Saint Pedro Poveda College) in Quezon City from Kindergarten
through Grade 4 where she earned first honors.[20]
•She transferred to the Convent of Our Lady of Assumption at Herran
Street in Manila for Grade 5 to first year high school, where she also
earned first honors.[20]
•Marcos later transferred to the "American School" (now 
International School Manila) in Makati