Imelda Plans a Political Comeback

This video includes a shot of Imelda visiting her dead, embalmed husband. Very strange stuff. The article below is from The Guardian.

Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, has begun a campaign for a congressional seat that she hopes will allow her to bury her husband in a heroes' cemetery and clear his sullied name.

Marcos, 80, and nearly 18,000 other politicians are traversing the impoverished south-east Asian nation on the first official day of campaigning for the 10 May elections.

Presidential and senatorial candidates have been campaigning for more than a month. Police say political violence, which often goes hand-in-hand with campaigning, has already claimed close to 80 lives, including 57 people massacred on the 23 November in an election caravan in southern Philippines.

Also among the celebrity candidates is the boxer Manny Pacquiao, who is seeking a congressional seat in his southern province. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who has been threatened with criminal charges by critics when her turbulent term ends in June, is another candidate for the 287-seat lower chamber.

Emerging from more than a decade of political obscurity, Marcos strode back with a vengeance. She led journalists at daybreak to the mausoleum of her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, in Ilocos Norte province, his northern stronghold.

Kissing his glass coffin (above), she said: "This is one of our major injustices." She then went to church and rode on a lorry festooned with balloons and posters as thousands cheered her along the way. She was flanked by her daughter Imee, who is running for governor in Ilocos Norte, a tobacco-growing region about 250 miles (400km) north of Manila. Imelda's son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, is seeking a senate seat.

Marcos said she will continue her campaign to have her husband buried in the national heroes' cemetery in Manila if she wins. His burial there has been opposed by officials amid public outrage after Marcos – accused of corruption, political repression and widespread human rights abuses – was ousted in a 1986 revolt and died in exile in Hawaii three years later.

Imelda Marcos and their three children were allowed to return to the Philippines in 1991. She said: "My ambition is to serve without end and to love without end."