President Duterte and the Philippines

Today on Accent of Women we turn our focus to the Philippines.  The current President, Rodrigo Duterte is facing charges by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.  These charges arise from Duterte’s War on Drugs that has seen over 20,000 people extrajudicially murdered in the streets.  There’s an ever growing COVID crisis, spiralling the existing economic crisis out of control.  And the country goes to a Presidential election in May 2022.  President Duterte is constitutionally preventing from running for an additional term, but they may not stop him.