Most significant positive evidence
The strongest positive evidence concerns economic recovery, infrastructure, external security cooperation and the eventual transfer of former president Duterte to the International Criminal Court.
Person
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The assessment covers economic recovery, infrastructure and diplomacy, continuation of drug-related killings, accountability for past abuses, historical revisionism, media freedom and cooperation with international justice.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-22.86
Reasoned summary
Marcos has delivered some economic and diplomatic stability and ultimately permitted a major international accountability step. His record remains negative because unlawful killings and impunity continued while historical truth and domestic accountability were weakened.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The score is reduced by continuing drug-war killings, weak domestic accountability, attacks on critics and efforts to rehabilitate the Marcos family legacy without full acknowledgment of dictatorship-era abuses.
Read the full Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -15.00
- Rights and dignity
- -37.61
- Nonviolence and harm
- -25.00
- Stewardship of power
- -30.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -12.59
- Consequential legacy
- -16.98
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2022–2026)
2022–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile