Uncertainties continue to float around the election of former president Rodrigo Duterte as Davao City mayor in the May 12 midterm elections. With the mayor-elect still confined in the International Criminal Court (ICC) detention center in The Netherlands, there is a real chance that his son and elected Vice Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte will assume the mayorship.
The 80-year-old former president delivered a landslide victory in his bailiwick with 662, 630 votes, leaving his rival and former Cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles trailing behind at a far second with 80,852 votes.
However, the pending investigation of the ICC on his bloody campaign against illegal drugs…