ILOILO City, Philippines -- On a Friday night in Iloilo City's Regatta Hotel, a group of amateur singers are crooning folk songs and 1970s rock and pop. The music does little to raise the spirits of a large group of female supporters of Leni Robredo, a liberal former vice president and local favorite, who has just lost the Philippine presidential election to Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, a son of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, deposed in 1986.
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Philippine city charts a different path
Iloilo, an opposition stronghold, pioneers a new approach to urban life
A cycling event in Iloilo City in late July: Urban renewal projects have made the Philippine city more friendly to pedestrians and cyclists. (Photo by Arnold Almacen)
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