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Philippine elections leaves the Marcos-Duterte family feud still dominating politics

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par John Sidel, Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science

With 317 congressional seats and nearly 18,000 local positions at stake, the May 12 midterm election results in the Philippines mean different things to people across the archipelago. But even a few hours after the unofficial results came in, the brute facts had already become clear.

Local elections for municipal and city mayorships, provincial governorships and congressional seats predictably produced victories for entrenched local “dynasties”. The advantages of incumbency – control over the patronage resources…

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