MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies appeared to have overwhelming leads in elections for the Philippine Senate, one of the opposition’s last bulwarks against a brash populist leader accused of massive human rights violations.
Preliminary results comprising 94% of returns from Monday’s midterm elections showed that at least eight candidates endorsed by Duterte were leading in races for 12 seats in the 24-member Senate.Those leading include Duterte’s former national police chief Ronald dela Rosa, who enforced the president’s crackdown on illegal drugs, a campaign that left thousands of suspects dead and drew international condemnation.
His anti-drug crackdown, unorthodox leadership style, combative and sexist joke-laden outbursts and contentious embrace of China have been the hallmarks of his presidency. “The overwhelming majority of the electorate have responded to the president’s call to support those whom he said would help pass laws supportive of his goal to uplift the masses of our people and give them comfortable lives.”
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