The Philippines’ 2025 midterm election could have marked a moment of reckoning for the decades-old populist Duterte dynasty. Its patriarch, 80-year-old former President Rodrigo, had been arrested by the International Criminal Court in March for alleged crimes against humanity.

Candidates linked to Philippine ex-leader Rodrigo Duterte appear to have won election victories, including Duterte himself, despite him being detained for alleged crimes against humanity.

Monday's outcome showed Duterte's influence remains far from diminished, despite an acrimonious fallout with Marcos, months of humiliating Congressional enquiries into her office's finances and the arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court of her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.