MANILA (Reuters) -More than 200,000 protesters turned out on Monday for the second day of an anti-graft rally in the Philippines, part of a wave of demonstrations since August demanding accountability for suspected corruption in flood-control projects.

HOW DID IT START?

In August, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. revealed an internal audit exposing serious irregularities in multi-billion-peso flood control projects.

These projects have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months after accusations of mismanagement emerged during a period of monsoon rains and storms that inundated towns and cities across the natural disaster-prone nation.

The audit found that of 545 billion pesos ($9.24 billion) spent since 2022, thousands of projects were substandard, poorly documented, or non-existen

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