First Family holds Christmas photoshoot

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December 15, 2025 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — As his administration confronts political controversies that have dragged members of his family, President Marcos joined First Lady Liza Marcos and their children for a photoshoot days before Christmas.

Liza posted images of the photoshoot of the First Couple and their children Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos, Joseph Simon and William Vincent in her Facebook account yesterday.

“Christmas family shoot with the people I trust most – a few laughs and a lot of love,” the First Lady’s caption read.

Members of the President’s family have been pulled into the political bickering that stemmed from the flood control scandal that erupted last July.

Marcos has ordered an investigation into the anomaly, which is said to have allowed corrupt officials and contractors to pocket huge sums of state funds through non-existent and substandard flood mitigation structures.

In a video statement late last month, resigned Ako Bicol party-list representative Zaldy Co accused Liza and her family of involvement in the supposed manipulation of onion and rice prices, which rose to new highs in recent years.

Co claimed that the First Lady’s brother, Martin Araneta, had a hand in the importation of onions that were sold by as much as P800 per kilo three years ago. He also linked Marcos to questionable insertions in the 2025 national budget.

Malacañang dismissed the former lawmaker’s claims as “hearsay” and products of a “very fertile imagination” and challenged him to come home to face his charges.

Co, who used to head the House appropriations committee, has been charged with graft and malversation of public funds and is facing an arrest warrant in relation to an allegedly anomalous road dike project in Oriental Mindoro. The former lawmaker left the Philippines days before the President sought a probe into the flood control mess last July.

Marcos and his family are also facing an accusation from his elder sister Sen. Imee Marcos, an ally of administration arch-critic Vice President Sara Duterte.

During an anti-corruption rally of religious group Iglesia ni Cristo last Nov. 17, Imee claimed that the President, Liza and their children are using illegal drugs. She also called on her younger brother to finish his “suffering” and that of the nation, undergo treatment and “come home.”

Malacañang branded Imee’s allegation as a “desperate” act while Sandro labeled it as “baseless” and “not the act of a true sibling” in a recent statement.

In a press conference last Nov. 24, the President said he, his family and friends have been very worried about Imee.

“The lady that you see talking on TV is not my sister,” Marcos told reporters at Malacañang.

“We no longer travel in the same circles, political or otherwise,” he added.