Campaigning began on Tuesday (Feb 11) in the Philippines for mid-term elections that could set the table for the next presidential race and determine the political future of impeached Vice President Sara Duterte.

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Duterte's future in balance as Philippine election season kicks off

MANILA (Reuters) - Campaigning for the Philippines' midterm elections kicked off on Tuesday against a fractured political backdrop, heightened by a high-profile row among warring elites that culminated in last week's impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte. Read full story

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Philippines kicks off election campaigning amid high-stakes political drama

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Marcos-Duterte feud kicks off midterm election season in the Philippines

Midterms seen as referendum on Marcos, preview for 2028 race Senate trial could kill off Duterte’s political ambitions Impeachment follows bitter rift between Duterte and president Senators to decide Duterte’s fate in impeachment trial MANILA, Feb 11 — Campaigning for the Philippines’ midterm elections kicked off today against a fractured political backdrop, heightened by a high-profile row among warring elites that culminated in last week’s imp…

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High-stakes political drama: Philippine midterm elections launch amid Duterte impeachment and feud with Marcos

Campaigning for the Philippines' midterm elections kicked off on Tuesday against a fractured political backdrop, heightened by a high-profile row among warring elites that culminated in last week's impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte. The impeachment could see Duterte removed from her post and banned for life from public office and comes amid an escalating feud between her and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose once-powerful alliance pro

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Would-be senators elected during the May 12 vote will be jurists in the impeachment trial of the vice president.

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At least two lawmakers believe Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment will be an election issue, as the country kicked off the campaign period for the May mi

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Sara Duterte's impeachment trial will be an election issue, lawmakers say

This year’s midterm elections had the making of a political exercise as exciting as watching goldfish in an aquarium. But the fast-break impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte by the House, and the Senate’s dedma response, just made the race a lot more interesting and the prize a whole lot bigger.  Move over, high prices. The Vice President’s looming impeachment trial will shape much of the midterm election’s discourse and rhetoric, and for …

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Guilty or not guilty? Impeachment votes may be elections' precious commodity

Campaigning began in the Philippines Tuesday for mid-term elections that could set the table for the next presidential race and determine the political future of impeached Vice President Sara Duterte.

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VP Sara Duterte's future in balance as election season kicks off

CAMPAIGNING began Tuesday for midterm elections that could set the table for the next presidential race and determine the political future of impeached Vice President Sara Duterte. Talk show hosts, movie stars and a preacher jailed on sex-trafficking charges are among the candidates vying for a dozen open Senate seats. While the May 12 vote will fill more than 18,000 posts nationwide, it is the would-be senators who are facing a duty few bargain…

Duterte's future in balance as Philippine election season kicks off

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