A FEW months ago, things looked grim for Sara Duterte, the vice-president of the Philippines. The country’s House of Representatives had impeached her, accusing Ms Duterte of misusing public money and threatening to assassinate the president, Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos. She faced a ban from politics if convicted of the charges in a trial in the Senate. Then the International Criminal Court indicted her father, Rodrigo, for crimes against humanity committed in a brutal drug war during his presidency (he denies this). The Duterte dynasty looked like it was over.

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