Marcos among TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2024’

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (PCO Photo)

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has been included in TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2024.”

TIME recognized Marcos’ leadership, citing how his administration steadied the post-coronavirus pandemic economy and how his presidency “elevated the Philippines on the world stage.”

The President’s stance against China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea was also cited.

“Bongbong has stood steadfast against Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea and bolstered his nation’s alliance with the U.

S. in the face of ‘rising tensions in our region and the world,’ as he said last May,” read Marcos’ short profile as written by TIME correspondent Charlie Campbell.

Marcos is listed in the Leaders category, along with Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny; Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk; Taiwan President-elect Willian Lai; Argentina President Javier Milei; Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Adbulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani; World Bank Group President Ajay Banga; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Chinese Premier Li Qiang; among others.

Other Philippine leaders who were featured in the list in previous years were Marcos’ predecessors Rodrigo Duterte in 2017 and Benigno Aquino III in 2013.