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Philippines Votes in Midterms Shaping Marcos-Duterte Power Struggle
- Millions of Filipinos voted on Monday in a midterm election to fill over 18,000 national and local posts across the country.
- The election took place amid a fierce conflict between President Ferdinand Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, who is scheduled for a Senate trial later this year that could result in her removal from office.
- The election included 12 Senate seats, whose winners will partly decide Duterte's impeachment fate, while voting took place under extreme heat and reports of machine overheating and violence in some regions.
- Commission on Elections chief George Garcia explained that high temperatures caused some voting machines to overheat, resulting in wet ink on ballots that caused them to stick to the scanners and delayed the voting process.
- The results could significantly influence the 2028 presidential contest and determine if the Duterte family retains political power amid ongoing security concerns during the voting process.
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Philippine elections leaves the Marcos-Duterte family feud still dominating politics
With 317 congressional seats and nearly 18,000 local positions at stake, the May 12 midterm election results in the Philippines mean different things to people across the archipelago. But even a few hours after the unofficial results came in, the brute facts had already become clear. Local elections for municipal and city mayorships, provincial governorships and congressional seats predictably produced victories for entrenched local “dynasties”.…
Marcos 'satisfied' with turnout of senatorial race in midterm polls
MANILA, Philippines — Although not all of the administration-backed candidates made it to the "Magic 12," President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is "satisfied" with how the senatorial race in the midterm elections turned out, Malacañang said on Wednesday. Six candidates from Marcos' Alyansa Para Sa Pagbabago — Erwin Tulfo, Ping Lacson, Tito Sotto, Pia Cayetano, Camille Villar, and Lito Lapid — are poised to get seats in the Senate. "The President is sat…
In the Philippines, the Duterte clan strengthened by the elections, despite the imprisonment of the former president in The Hague
The Filipinos elected on Monday 12 May nearly 18,000 political representatives in the mid-term elections. The former president regained his seat at the head of the country's third city and his clan won many successes, to the detriment of the current head of state.
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