A lawyer for drug war victims shrugged off remarks that former President Rodrigo Duterte's landslide win in Davao City amounts to a public vindication as "elections do not erase nor forgive crimes against humanity.

Even though he is detained in The Hague, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is among the candidates vying for some 18,000 national and local seats in Monday’s midterm elections

As results were still being tallied in Monday's Philippine mid-term election, impeached Vice President Sara Duterte released a statement just before midnight telling supporters the outcome was "not what we had hoped for".

Former president Rodrigo Duterte's overwhelming victory in the Davao City mayoral race signals a total rejection of the Marcos administration's efforts to erase the former president's legacy, according to his lead counsel before the International Criminal Court (ICC),

MANILA: Voters dealt President Ferdinand Marcos Jr a stinging blow in the Philippines' midterm elections that weakened his grip on the Senate, while boosting Vice-President Sara Duterte's allies just weeks before an impeachment trial against his deputy.

When 68 million Filipinos head to the polls on Monday, Sara Duterte's name will not be on the ballot. But the results of the election will have a large, if not direct, impact on her political future.