A campaign by the daughter of the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte hovers somewhere between rumour and reality.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (L) and daughter Sara Duterte at the Boao Forum for Asia Conference 2018, in China s Hainan province, April 2018 (AFP via Getty Images) Published 26 Feb 2021 11:00 0 Comments
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term is drawing to a close in 2022, and under the current constitution, he isn’t eligible for re-election. Incumbent leaders have been known to endorse a successor leading up to the voting, but only one president has ever been succeeded by an allied candidate.
Duterte might aim to change that. Already there is talk of Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter, taking her chances in the upcoming polls. She is currently the mayor of Davao, the family’s hometown, where her father was previously in the same j
Thousands of Catholic pilgrims gathered in the Philippine capital on Saturday to pay homage to the Black Nazarene statue of Jesus Christ, as health restrictions due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic significantly curtailed the attendance to the event.
Known by its Spanish term, “Translacion”, the annual procession in Manila is considered as one of the world’s biggest shows of Catholic devotion, attracting more than a million people.
But all that has changed this year due to COVID-19, which has so far infected more than 500,000 Filipinos and claimed the lives of almost 10,000 others.
The faithful, wearing mostly red and maroon shirts, gathered before dawn on Saturday to catch a glimpse of the statue.