Philippine officials on Monday began recounting ballots cast in a 2016 vice-presidential election, a move that the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos hopes could return his family to power.
The recount gives Ferdinand Marcos Jr. another shot at presidential succession, 32 years after his family was ousted in the 1986 People’s Power Revolution. As Ferdinand Marcos was deposed, the family was also found to have looted billions of dollars during decades of strongman rule that meted out martial law, torture and arbitrary...