The campaign for the 2028 presidential elections has begun.
The arena for the first round of the battle is the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte which is scheduled to start on July 30.
Public attention is now on the 24 senators of the 20th Congress who will sit as judges in the impeachment trial including the 12 who won in the May 12 midterm elections.
An online poster “Global Tribute to Tatay Digong” with an accompanying text in Chinese has been circulating on social media platforms being followed by supporters of the Dutertes.
It’s a call for an activity on March 28 for the 80th birthday of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who is currently detained in Scheveningen, The Hague while awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity of murder in connection to the extrajudicial killings in the course of his war against illegal drugs during his presidency.
Here’s a Google translation of the accompanying text in Chinese: