{"id":71760,"date":"2025-05-13T02:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/12\/rodrigo-duterte-wins-philippines-election-from-jail-cell-in-the-hague"},"modified":"2025-05-13T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:44:30","slug":"rodrigo-duterte-wins-philippines-mayoral-election-from-jail-cell-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71760","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippines mayoral election from jail cell in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president of nation re-elected as mayor of city of Davao despite his enforced absence<\/p>\n<p>Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been re-elected as mayor of the city of Davao, the family\u2019s stronghold, despite being imprisoned thousands of miles away in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 60% of returns in, Duterte, 80, had an insurmountable lead of 405,000 votes \u2013 far ahead of his nearest competitor who trailed on 49,000, according to unofficial results from the election commission published by local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/12\/rodrigo-duterte-wins-philippines-election-from-jail-cell-in-the-hague\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president of nation re-elected as mayor of city of Davao despite his enforced absenceFormer Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been re-elected as mayor of the city of Davao, the family\u2019s stronghold, despite being imprisoned thousands of m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760\/revisions\/71761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}