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40-year political enmity ends with visit to Cory wake

by Gerard Naval
Malaya

Imee Marcos and Lisa Araneta-Marcos with Aquino grandchildren
Aimee Marcos and Lisa Araneta-Marcos with Aquino grandchildren
The death of former President Corazon Aquino has managed to unite two of the bitterest rival families in the country’s political history that goes back at least 40 years: the Marcos’s and the Aquinos.

At about 2:30 p.m. yesterday, Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos and his sister Imee, a former congresswoman, arrived at the Manila Cathedral to pay their respects to the icon of democracy.

They were received by Mrs. Aquino’s daughter, Ballsy Aquino Cruz, and grandsons Kiko Dee and Jiggy Cruz.

The Marcos siblings immediately proceeded to the coffin and said prayers, after which they exchanged pleasantries with the Aquinos.

Kris’ unspoken message: Arroyo not welcome

Her silence was so eloquent, the audience got the message clearly.

Kris Aquino-Yap, the celebrity youngest daughter of former President Corazon Aquino, was asked yesterday by ABS-CBN entertainment reporter Mario Dumaual if Gloria Arroyo would be welcomed if she came to the wake of their mother, now at the Manila Cathedral.

She kept quiet for about six seconds, which seemed eternity on TV. Then she said, “That’s a very difficult question.”

Pressed for an answer, she begged off saying, “Huwag mo na ako pilitin. Baka may masabi pa akong hindi maganda. (Please don’t compel me (to answer). I might say something not good.)

Why the Aquinos declined state funeral for Cory

Photos by Angelica Katheryn Carballo:

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We caught up with the live interview of Kris Aquino by Boy Abunda at La Salle Greenhills where the wake of the woman dubbed as “icon of democracy” is being held.

Too bad that Boy interrupted Kris at the point when she was relating the conversation with a Malacañang representative who offered a state funeral for the former president and Malacañang as venue of the wake, which the Aquino family declined.

Kris said the family decided that she be the one to meet with the Malacañang representative,because if it would be her brother, opposition senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, it would be difficult not have it mixed up with partisan politics.

Kris said the Malacañang representative was saying that they were in a damn-if-you-do, damn-if-you-don’t situation as far as official honors for her mother was concerned. She remarked, “Di ko problema ang problema ninyo, ang problema ko lang, Mom ko.”