The last time a Marcos claimed victory in a Philippine presidential election, it was on the back of a victory so tainted by fraud it sparked a democratic revolution.

Thirty-six years later, voters in South-East Asia’s second-biggest democracy have delivered Ferdinand Marcos jnr to the presidential palace from which he fled along with his father into exile. Those who fought for democracy in the 1986 “people power” revolution, and who fought to protect the achievements of the movement since then, are understandably shell-shocked.