Philippines midterm elections likely to boost President Rodrigo Duterte and his agenda, including a bloody and controversial war on drugs
Campaign posters crowd a street in Quezon City, Philippines. By Regine Cabato and Regine Cabato Email Bio Follow Shibani Mahtani Shibani Mahtani Reporter covering Southeast Asia Email Bio Follow May 12 at 6:00 PM MANILA — Voters in the Philippines head to the polls Monday for midterm elections that are expected to deliver a win for allies of President Rodrigo Duterte and allow him to advance his agenda despite international condemnation.
The tough-talking Philippine president is best known for his bloody war on drugs. the government says more than 5,000 drug dealers and users have been killed in which police operations, both drug users and dealers. Human rights groups say the toll is likely significantly higher — up to 20,000, including low-level drug users and even ordinary citizens, some in vigilante-style killings related to the drug war.
Though the opposition is politically credible, Arguelles said, they remain “electorally uncompetitive,” still widely perceived as elitist, compared to Duterte’s image as a brash everyman. Politicians across party lines have rushed to join the cyber war, hiring online hands with fake accounts to boost their platforms, defend their people and sometimes smear their rivals.
Jonathan Ong, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts who has studied the troll industry, says plenty of campaign propaganda can still fly under the radar.
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