WI Marcos transitions to parliamentary system, 1971?

IOTL, Ferdie, like Arroyo until recently, sought a Constitutional convention in 1971 to create a parliamentary system to abolish term limits. After the chairs told him no, he tried to bribe them into forcing it through, and they refused. 14 months later came E.O. 1081 and Marcos, a civilian president, leading a military dictatorship for 14 years. WI the delegates had bowed to the pressure and created a parliamentary system? Marcos is elected PM without term limits, and the need for martial law is removed? Will he govern better than OTL?
 
IOTL, Ferdie, like Arroyo until recently, sought a Constitutional convention in 1971 to create a parliamentary system to abolish term limits. After the chairs told him no, he tried to bribe them into forcing it through, and they refused. 14 months later came E.O. 1081 and Marcos, a civilian president, leading a military dictatorship for 14 years. WI the delegates had bowed to the pressure and created a parliamentary system? Marcos is elected PM without term limits, and the need for martial law is removed? Will he govern better than OTL?

I doubt it. We're talking about a man whose first brush with politics ended with him killing the opposition. At the very least he's still going to stack his Cabinet with cronies from Ilocos Norte. We'd probably see the same mismanagement, but less disappearances and people mysteriously ending up dead on runways.
 
This means he can remain in power until his death as per OTL. Imelda might be less prominent, and the post-Marcos political scene will look very different. Ramos is still a possibility, but Erap and GMA will likely never enter politics, let alone Malacanang.
 

Cook

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I doubt it. We're talking about a man whose first brush with politics ended with him killing the opposition. At the very least he's still going to stack his Cabinet with cronies from Ilocos Norte. We'd probably see the same mismanagement, but less disappearances and people mysteriously ending up dead on runways.

I’d expect just as many disappearances and bodies turning up.

People tend to object to blatant vote buying and ballot stacking of voting boxes.
 
Cook: not really. I remember reading de Quiros in the PDI saying that vote buying (which has always influenced the result to a degree) is not the problem, it's flagrant vote-buying. IOTL in 1986 they dumped whole ballot boxes on the ground in front of foreign journalists. Also why there was much controversy surrounding the 2004 election, and probably something will happen before Arroyo leaves Malacanang on June 30th.
 
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