
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, who is currently detained by the ICC at the Hague has been elected Mayor in absentia. His youngest son has been elected deputy mayor, his eldest son has been re-elected to the Senate and three of his grandchildren have been elected as councillors.
Meanwhile his daughter Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio is the vice-president of Philippines and is currently engaged in a bitter feud with the president for handing his father to the ICC. The Duterte dynasty is deeply entrenched in the South , especially in Davao city, which is their stronghold.
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