Six weeks ago, from from Pilled High with Flores, he stopped at the detention center of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The court also received birthday card deliveries. Many and lots of them.
All were for the newest of Mate, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, who turned 80 on March 28. He is accused of crimes against humanity, and could spend the rest of his life in prison.
“The place was flooded with flowers, and I brought part of the mail because they did not know what to do with him,” said Nicholas Kaufman, lawyer of Mr. Duterte, in a telephone interview. Hefet said with three captures or mail for Mr. Duterte that the court could not fat. In the Philippines, thousands of people dressed in the Green associated with the political party of Mr. Duterte flooded the streets of the city of Davao.
Duterte, who ordered a brutal anti -drug campaign in which tens of thousands of people died in the presence, is still very popular in the Philippines. With the Filipinos voting in the elections in the middle of the operation on Monday, it is expected that another mandate as mayor of the city of Davao, its eighth, for a landslide. For now, it is still eligible for office.
The sudden trial and extradition of Mr. Duterte to The Hague in March have sharply divided the Philippines. While some surveys show that most Filipinos support international research, many of Mr. Duterte’s supporters believe he is the victim of the political persecution of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., once an ally of the Duterte clan.
Shortly after Mr. Duterte’s dramatic trial, Mr. Marcos’s approach rating collapsed to 25 percent from 42 percent of the year before, in a survey conducted by Pulse Asia. But that of Sara Duterte, the current vice president and daughter of Mr. Duterte, increased to 59 percent of 52 percent.
Mrs. Duterte has long been considered a future presidential candidate. But this choice, in which half of the Senate is at stake, could be essential for her. She has been promoted by positions that include corruption, conspiring to assassinate Mr. Marcos, participation in the murders of the war on drugs and incitement to insurrection, and the 24 senators of the country will decide this summer if they condemn her.
In Davao, where Mr. Duterte is still loved after 22 years as mayor, his dynasty is thriving. A son, Sebastian, is expected to probably win the vice -food race, act as mayor if his father wins. At least seven family members could join the local government.
For the first time, three political families, the Nograles, the Garcias and the Al-Aags, are combining forces to challenge the Dutetes, their former political ally, in Davao. But even Bernie Al-Aag-Who is running against Sebastian Duterte-Sid, he was not happy with Rodrigo Duterte’s trial.
“I also look at him as a paternal figure,” said Mr. Al-AG, who is a former vicealcalde or davao. “Continuously to pray for him.”
Mags Maglana, a NGO WORMER that is postulated for a seat in Congress against Paolo Duterte, another or the children of Mr. Duterte, said that before the judgment of Mr. Duterte, people in Davao could serenance between the patriarch and those who surround him.
But now he is concerned that “the effusion of sympathy for the father marries the rest of the family.”
Mr. Duterte’s camp has used his case in The Hague as a campaign tool. In a demonstration in Manila on Thursday, a video or his trial was reproduced. His followers wore t -shirts and wore posters that said: “Bring it home.” Mrs. Duterte told the attendees that the country was “paying the price to choose the wrong leader.”
“What is equally more painful is that they managed to kidnap the former president and threw him to another country to be tried by foreigners,” he said.
That other country, the Netherlands, are very far from life to which Mr. Duterte is accustomed.
The first problem was food. (It is not clear what is served exactly in the detention center, but the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, once complained that the food was too “Eurocentric”).
Fadi El Abdallah, a CPI spokesman, said the court did not comment on matters related to Detinse’s private life.
Duterte said “it was not used” for meals offered, according to Mr. Kaufman, which led the lawyer to request “culturally appropriate food.” For Mr. Duterte, that is rice, which is receiving now, according to the EM. Dute
“That is what we ask and cook perfectly,” Duterte told journalists in The Hague before. “Correct compliance with the Filipino taste.”
Mr. Duterte’s family was allowed to supply him with edible, including his very necessary, Coke Zero, according to Mrs. Duterte. She told the journalists that she had complained about why she was only zero zero once a day, and that she needed at least two cans a day.
Life is regimented. Mr. Duterte curls with Mr. Kaufman every morning in a conference room. In the afternoon, it meets some family members. It has allowed time to exercise in a gym that is established with a court to play basketball, tennis and bádminton. There is another community space with a foosball table. It is one of the six people in custody, according to judicial records.
According to Mrs. Duterte, her father, who is diabetic, has nurses who monitor him. You have access to library books and a computer that allows you to review your defense file, but is not connected to the Internet. At the end of the morning or later, you are allowed to make phone calls to the numbers that have been examined in advance. He has a TV to watch the news.
“In a joke, some people refer to him as a five -star hilton,” Kaufman said. “But it’s still a prison.”
The small detention center is within 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 trial in the court. It was acquired together with another ivory political leader, Charles Blé Goudé, who was represented by Mr. Kaufman.
In a filming to the Court at the beginning of this month, Mr. Kaufman argued that there was no legal basic for the case against Mr. Duterte because the Philippines was no longer a state part in the Rome Statute, the treaty that forms the basic for the legal authority of the Court, when the court allowed an investigation in the drug war in September 2021. His legislator called the immediate release and initiation Mr. Duterte.
A hearing for confirmation of charges is scheduled for September 23.
In Davao, the boxes or volunteers have camped in front or in the house of Mr. Duterte from his judgment. Janice Mahipus, 45, online seller, said she had been sleeping outside the house, first in cardboards on the floor and then in a bed a few meters away.
“We never tired of waiting for him,” he said.
AIE BALAGTAS SEE Contributed reports.