Overview
- Police estimates of the turnout ranged from tens of thousands to the high hundreds of thousands as the INC opened a three‑day rally, with a smaller Duterte‑aligned protest also held in Quezon City.
- Authorities placed Manila on full alert with thousands of police and military deployed, palace access roads barricaded, and city officials shuttering schools and closing dozens of streets through Nov. 19.
- An independent commission has filed graft, corruption and plunder complaints against 37 suspects, plus separate cases against 86 construction executives and nine officials for nearly 9 billion pesos in alleged tax evasion.
- High‑profile figures named in testimonies include former House Speaker Martin Romualdez, former Senate President Chiz Escudero and Senator Bong Go, who all deny wrongdoing, as Marcos says no one is exempt but his cousin faces no charges yet for lack of evidence.
- Former congressman Zaldy Co accused Marcos of taking 25 billion pesos in kickbacks, a claim the presidential office called propaganda, while the scandal has been linked to slower growth, a weaker peso and a slumping stock market.