Imelda Marcos relaunches political career

PHILIPPINES: With the kiss of a glass casket containing her dictator husband's embalmed body, the remarkable Imelda Marcos relaunched her political career on Friday at the age of 80.

For the irrepressible Marcos, paying loving respect to the controversial former Philippine President delivered a powerful message of family defiance to begin her campaign for a lower house seat in the nation's Parliament.

"He was our best ever president," Marcos, typically immaculate in a tangerine blouse and matching pants, told reporters at the family home in the northern Philippine town of Batac after visiting the downstairs mausoleum. BATAC, Friday, AFP