In the high-stakes world of political dynasties, there has always been one iron-clad, unwritten rule: you never, ever, sabotage your own blood in public. Whatever disagreements or power struggles happen behind the opulent, closed doors must stay there. To break this rule is to invite chaos, to hand your enemies the ammunition to destroy your entire household, and to break a “sacred line of loyalty” from which there is no return. That line has just been obliterated. The Marcos dynasty is not just in a feud; it is in a full-blown, public-facing civil war, and it has just reached its most heartbreaking and shocking chapter.

The latest salvo was not fired by a rival party, but from within the family’s own fortress. Congressman Sandro Marcos, the son of President Bongbong Marcos, has just issued a stunning and deeply personal public statement aimed at one person: his aunt, Senator Imee Marcos. In what he called the “first and last time” he would ever speak on the matter, the Congressman has publicly accused his aunt of being a liar, a traitor, and a power-hungry destabilizer.

With a tone that was equal parts pained and furious, Sandro Marcos’s statement was a political execution. He acknowledged the “respect” he has always held for the woman who played a role in his early public life, but then used that respect as a blade. “That respect remains,” he stated, “which is why this will be the first and last time I will be speaking on this.” The implication was clear: his respect was the only thing holding him back, and it had just been pushed to its absolute limit.

He then accused his aunt of a motive so cynical it sent shockwaves through the political landscape: her own “political ambition.” He claims her recent, explosive accusations against his father—the President of the Philippines—are nothing more than a “web of lies aimed at destabilizing this government to advance her own political ambition.” This was not, in Sandro’s telling, a sister’s desperate plea for her brother. It was, he alleges, the cold, calculated first move of a political strategist with her eyes on the 2028 presidential election.

The narrative Imee Marcos had reportedly been pushing—that her brother, the president, was unfit, compromised, or living a “certain lifestyle”—was dismissed by her nephew as “not only false but dangerously irresponsible.” He declared that her sensational claims had “no basis” and “no truth.” He painted her as a rogue agent, a pyromaniac “igniting fires that benefit no one but herself,” all in a desperate quest for power.

This accusation of ambition immediately raised a critical question, one that the public had already been asking: If Imee truly believed her brother was compromised, why did she endorse him? Why did she stand beside him on the campaign trail and help him win, only to “betray” him now? To her critics, and now to her own nephew, this timing is the ultimate proof of her cynical game. It is not the act of a concerned sibling, but the move of a political opportunist who, having used her brother to regain the palace, is now attempting to clear the way for her own ascent.

But the most devastating part of Sandro’s statement, the line that truly signifies the war has reached a point of no return, was when he dragged his cousins—Imee’s own sons—into the line of fire. In a bombshell claim that has left the public speechless, Sandro Marcos alleged that his cousins, Borgy, Vice Governor Matthew, and Attorney Michael Manotoc, would all “attest that this allegation that were insinuated against me are false.”

He didn’t just hint at it; he stated it as a fact. He revealed that the cousins had an agreement: “Whatever happened between our parents, we wouldn’t let ourselves be drug in.” It was a pact of the next generation, a promise to stay above the political squabbles of their parents. By making this claim, Sandro was sending a clear and brutal message: Imee’s alleged “web of lies” is so egregious that it has forced her own children to choose a side, and they are not choosing hers. He framed her actions as a “betrayal of her own family” that “brings a lot of pain,” a pain that has now apparently fractured the bond between a mother and her sons.

This is no longer a simple family spat. It is, as the Congressman’s statement declared, a “betrayal with national consequences.” By breaking the unwritten rule, Imee Marcos has, in the eyes of her family, “given ammunition to political enemies” and created “confusion” and “instability” for the entire government. The feud has become so chaotic and unhinged that it has resurrected bizarre, decades-old rumors, including whispers about the Senator’s own parentage, which are now being used by her detractors to paint her as an “outsider,” not a “real Marcos.”

Sandro Marcos’s statement was a call to “unite behind the truth, not to amplify narratives meant to topple the government.” But in reality, it was a declaration of war. It was the moment a son publicly chose his father over his aunt, a nephew who branded a Senator a liar, and, in the most tragic twist of all, a cousin who claimed his own relatives would choose “truth” over their own mother. The sacred line of family loyalty has been broken, and the Marcos dynasty, in its moment of ultimate triumph, is now eating itself alive in front of the entire world.