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<figure class="op-social"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lz8NkPwm4M4" width="510"></iframe></figure>It&#x27;s time for leaders to inform the youth of the &#x27;dark ages of Martial Law,&#x27; a Senatorial candidate said Tuesday.As a proud student activist during the Martial Law years, Senate hopeful Francis &quot;Kiko&quot; Pangilinan believes it&#x27;s time to raise awareness on the Marcos dictatorship.This comes amid a recent survey claiming that Ferdinand &quot;Bongbong&quot; Marcos, son of former president Ferdinand, is emerging as a frontrunner in the Vice Presidential race.“It is leadership now that is tasked and charged to ensure our younger generation of Filipinos remember this dark age and make sure it does not happen again,” he added.READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/02/15/16/binay-lead-slips-chiz-marcos-tied-in-vp-race-sws">Binay lead slips; Chiz, Marcos tied in VP race: SWS</a>“So what we have to do in the next three months is really raise the awareness of our young people, of our voters, regarding the truth behind the Marcos dictatorship and focus on how we can move the discussion towards accountability, making sense of what happened in the past,” he added.Marcos&#x27; ranking in the latest surveys also manifests youth&#x27;s lack of sense of history, posing a big challenge to the country&#x27;s leadership, he added.“We have short memories [of the Martial Law years] of too certain extent and that’s why it’s a function of leadership to be able to deepen awareness.”Pangilinan went on by saying &quot;the beginning of the end of war, somebody said, is in remembering, so the beginning of the end of tyranny and oppression is also in remembering.”The senatorial candidate, who runs under the Liberal Party (LP), said they would have then to spend the next months of the election campaign raising awareness on the truth behind the Martial Law years.READ: <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/nation/08/26/15/bongbong-marcos-nothing-wrong-about-martial-law">Bongbong Marcos: Nothing wrong about Martial Law</a>Meanwhile, Pangilinan said it is still to early to tell who will win in the 2016 elections.“It’s too early to tell who is to win, this is going to be a close fight, it’s anybody’s ballgame,” he said.In the February 2016 SWS survey, Vice President Jejomar Binay topped the presidential race with 29 percent, slipping from 31 percent in the January 2016 SWS survey. While LP presidential candidate Mar Roxas also slipped from 21 percent in January to 18 percent.But Pangilinan believes Roxas, who is 11 percent away from the survey&#x27;s top presidential candidate Binay, can still rise to the top come May 9 elections.&quot;In the same way that Vice President Binay from two percent went to 39 percent in six months [during the 2010 national elections], Secretary Roxas can move 11 percent up in three months,&quot; he said.

As a proud student activist during the Martial Law years, Senate hopeful Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan believes it's time to raise awareness on the Marcos dictatorship. 

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Pangilinan: Time to remind the youth of 'dark ages of Martial Law'

Magno Ardenia,

ABS-CBN News

Published Feb 16, 2016 10:23 PM PHT

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