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Six weeks ago, a van stacked flowers in the international detention center in the Hague. The court also received deliveries from birthday cards. Many and many of them.
They were all for the latest inmates Rodrigo Duterte, a former President of the Philippines, who turned 80 on March 28. The tributes were proof of its permanent popularity there, although he was accused of brutal anti -drug campaign due to crime against humanity in which tens of thousands of people died.
“The place was flooded with flowers, and I brought out part of the post because they didn’t know what to do with it,” said Nicholas Kaufman, a lawyer by Mr. Duterte, in a telephone interview. He said he had left three sacks of mail for Mr. Duterte that the court could not check. On the Philippines, thousands of people flooded with the political party of Mr. Duterte, the streets of Davao City.
After Filipinos voted in intermediate elections on Monday, Mr. Duterte certainly seemed to win another term as Mayor of Davao City by showing an unofficial record of the partial results, even though he was able to spend the rest of his life in prison if he was convicted. For 22 years he was the mayor of the city in three separate routes for 22 years before taking over the presidency.
At 11:30 p.m., preliminary returns with 76 percent of the votes showed that Mr. Duterte won 63.3 percent of the vote with 7.8 percent, far before his closest rival Karlo Nogral. The winners of the races will only officially announce the election officers on Tuesday.
Mr. Duterte’s sudden arrest and delivery to Haag in March shared the Philippines. While some surveys show that the majority of the Filipinos give the investigation, many of the supporters of Mr. Duterte believed that he is a victim of political persecution of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., once an ally of the Duterte clan.
Soon after Mr. Duterte’s dramatic arrest, by Mr. Marcos Admission rating sinks According to a survey of 42 percent a month earlier. But that of Sara Duterte – the current Vice President and the daughter of Mr. Duterte – rose from 52 percent to 59 percent.
Ms. Duterte has long been seen as the future presidential candidate. But this choice, in which half of the Senate can be won, could prove to be crucial for them. She was charged with corruption to murder Mr. Marcos to be involved in the murders for drug war murders and the rise of the drug war murders, and the country’s 24 senators will decide this summer whether to condemn them.
In Davao, where Mr. Duterte stays loved, his dynasty is flourishing. A son, Sebastian, who is the current mayor, seemed to win the deputy breed, according to the preliminary results. It is expected to act as the mayor on the site of his father, as it remains unclear whether Mr. Duterte can take his oath from detention in the Hague. At least seven members of his family took over the commands in the local elections on Monday.
For the first time, three political family die Nograleses, which combined Garcias and the Al-Ags-the forces, have combined the Dutertes, their former political ally, in Davao. But even Bernie al-AG, who competed against Sebastian Duterte in this election, said he was unhappy about Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest.
“I also see him as a father figure,” said Mr. Al-A-AG, who is a former Vice Mayor of Davao.
Before the elections, Maglana, an NGO worker who was concerned with a congress seat against Paolo Duterte, another of Mr. Dutertes’s sons, was concerned that she was concerned that “the sympathy for the rest of the family would exceed”. At 11:30 p.m., Ms. Maglana had only received about 0.3 percent of the vote.
Mr. Duterte’s warehouse used his case in the Hague as a campaign tool. At a rally in Manila on Thursday, a video of his arrest was played. His followers wore T-shirts and wore posters with the inscription: “Bring him home.” Ms. Duterte told the participants that the country “paid the price for the choice of the wrong leader”.
“It is even more painful that you managed to kidnap the former president and hastily throw him into another country to be brought to trial by foreigners,” she said.
This other country, the Netherlands, is far from the life to which Lord Duterte is used to.
The first problem was the food. (It is unclear what exactly is served in the detention center, but the former president of Liberias, Charles Taylor, once complained that the food was too “Eurocentric”.)
Fadi El Abdallah, an ICC spokesman, said the court did not comment on matters in connection with the private life of prisoners.
Mr. Duterte said that according to Kaufman, he was “not used for the meals offered” and asked the lawyer to apply for “culturally appropriate food”. For Mr. Duterte, the rice is – what he now gets after Ms. Duterte.
“We asked about that and it is perfectly cooked” Ms. Duterte told reporters In the Hague earlier. “Really according to the Filipino taste.”
The family of Mr. Duterte was allowed to provide him with food, including his esteemed Cola Zero. She told reporters that he had complained that he got Coke Zero once a day and that he needed at least two doses a day.
Life is regulated. Mr. Duterte sounds in a conference room with Mr. Kaufman every morning. In the afternoon he meets with some family members. It takes time to train in a gym that is set up with a place to play Basketball, tennis and badminton. There is another common room with a foosball table. He is one of Six people in custodyaccording to court files.
According to Ms. Duterte, her father, who is diabetics, has to monitor nurses. He has access to library books and a computer with which he can check his defense applications but is not connected to the Internet. In the late morning or afternoon, he may make phone calls for numbers that have been checked in advance. He has a television so that he can see the news.
“Jokingly, some people call it a five-star help,” said Kaufman. “But it’s still prison.”
The small detention center is located in a Dutch prison in the Hague. One of his former residents was Laurent Gbagbo from Ivory Coast, the first former head of state to reach a court hearing in court. He was acquitted together with another Ivorian political leader, Charles Blé Goudé, who was represented by Mr. Kaufman.
In a submission to the court This month, Mr. Kaufman argued that there was no legal basis in the event, since the Philippines were no longer a public prosecutor’s office for the Rome statute -the contract that forms the basis for the legal authority of the court -when the court permitted an investigation of the drug war in September 2021.
A hearing to confirm the fees is planned for September 23.
In Davao, dozens of volunteers have laid out in front of Mr. Duterte’s house since his arrest. Janice Mausus, 45, an online seller, said she slept in front of the house, first on boxes and then on a bed a few meters away.
“We will never get tired of waiting for him,” she said.
See aie Balagtas Reported reports.