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  1. 4 days ago · INQUIRER.net Elections 2025 special coverage. On May 12, Filipino voters, which the Commission on Elections estimates might reach 68 million, are set to cast their votes in the 2025 midterm elections. They will choose more than 18,000 public officials — among them 12 new senators, 254 congressional district representatives, 63 party-list ...

    • Who Is The Presidential Front-Runner?
    • What About His Challenger?
    • Who Are The Other Candidates?
    • What's at Stake?

    While the candidate list includes 10 people, as the campaign winds down, it has mostly become a two-way race between incumbent Vice-President Leni Robredo and Ferdinand (Bongbong) Marcos Jr., a former senator and son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The latest public opinion polls put Marcos Jr., 64, comfortably in the lead. His running mate,...

    Leni Robredo, a former human rights lawyer, has built her campaign around trying to counter the Marcos social media machine — and the name recognition that comes with his political dynasty. She and her team take pride in running a grassroots campaign powered by volunteers, some going house to house to talk directly to voters. While Robredo, 57, is ...

    Some of the other candidates in the election have made the run-up to the vote an exciting one for Filipinos, including celebrity and world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao. Although his numbers show him trailing in the polls, Pacquiao is a household name in the Philippines and around the world. He won a senate seat in the country in 2016. Pacquiao's p...

    The next president of the Philippines will face a long list of issues that could define the country's future for years to come: rebuilding the economy after the pandemic wiped out millions of jobs, charting a foreign policy amidst territorial threats from China and future-proofing against looming crises, like climate change. To Coronel, who will be...

  2. 5 days ago · A: Voting by local absentee voters will take place from April 28-30, 2025. On May 11, 2025, the eve of Election Day, there will be a liquor ban and no campaigning allowed. Election Day, May 12 ...

  3. May 10, 2022 · On May 9th, Filipinos went to the polls to cast their votes for President to succeed Rodrigo Duterte. The acerbic former Mayor of Davao oversaw a decline in Philippine democracy, a bloody drug war, the proliferation of disinformation, and a foreign policy that failed in its pivot to China but distanced Manila from Washington.

  4. May 8, 2022 · The Philippines goes to the polls on May 9 to choose a new president, in what analysts say will be the most significant election in the Southeast Asian nation’s recent history.

    • Al Jazeera Staff
  5. Nov 28, 2021 · In the race to succeed outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, the offspring of two presidents are gunning to run the country in an unprecedented tie-up.

  6. May 5, 2022 · May 5 (Reuters) - The Philippines holds an election on Monday to decide thousands of positions across the archipelago, including who will take over from Rodrigo Duterte and become its president...