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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
MANILA, May 12 (Xinhua) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has won again the Davao City mayoral race in the 2025 midterm elections, preliminary results showed late Monday.
According to the Philippine Elections Commission, which was reported by local media, after more than 60 percent of the ballots were counted, Duterte won a comfortable lead, garnering 405,000 votes compared to his closest rival’s 49,000.
The former president was arrested in March at Manila International Airport and then taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he remains in custody.
Under Philippine electoral law, a candidate can only be disqualified from running for office on the basis of a criminal conviction in a local court. –0–