Both Marcos and Duterte cast their votes early on Monday in their hometowns. Duterte told reporters she had recently spoken with her father, who is detained in The Hague and facing trial at the International Criminal Court over his “war on drugs”.
She said she told him that more than two of his 10 endorsed Senate candidates were likely to win. Among the 10 is the former police chief who oversaw the drugs war, during which thousands were killed.
“This election is more than an informal referendum on the Marcos administration,” said Aries Arugay, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines.
“The Senate race is the key proxy battle … Marcos needs to retain a majority, or supermajority, to push forward his legislative and economic agenda.”
Local media reported that voting, which runs from 5am to 7pm, was generally proceeding as expected, aside from some delays caused by glitches in the vote-counting machines.
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