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According to the report, in the southern Philippine city of Davao, a spirited mayoral election campaign is in full swing, with candidates and their supporters out canvassing for votes. But one of the leading contenders is conspicuously absent from the stump. Instead, he’s 7,000 miles away, languishing in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is awaiting trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity, over a brutal war on drug dealers that killed possibly thousands of people, including many innocents and bystanders, with barely any kind of due process.
The report said that none of this affects the 80-year-old’s eligibility for the role of mayor of Davao – a job he held, on and off, for two decades. Under Philippine election law, only a criminal conviction in a local court can keep a candidate off the ballot. Duterte could well win Monday’s election, thanks to his enduring popularity in the region, where many credit his two-decade iron grip with tightening up law and order, before he took his brutal zero-tolerance policy nationwide as president from 2016 to 2022. His ICC arrest doesn’t shake their core of who Duterte is, but rather, paradoxically, it only reinforces what Duterte stands for. What the people in Davao are looking for is not a saint leader, but a leader with political will, and only the Duterte family has this in their patriarch.
Source: CNN World News
The report said that none of this affects the 80-year-old’s eligibility for the role of mayor of Davao – a job he held, on and off, for two decades. Under Philippine election law, only a criminal conviction in a local court can keep a candidate off the ballot. Duterte could well win Monday’s election, thanks to his enduring popularity in the region, where many credit his two-decade iron grip with tightening up law and order, before he took his brutal zero-tolerance policy nationwide as president from 2016 to 2022. His ICC arrest doesn’t shake their core of who Duterte is, but rather, paradoxically, it only reinforces what Duterte stands for. What the people in Davao are looking for is not a saint leader, but a leader with political will, and only the Duterte family has this in their patriarch.
Source: CNN World News