WITH Duterte father and daughter leading the latest Pulse Asia survey on voter preferences for president and vice president, political pundits, media and especially the opposition ask: Why?

The coronavirus disease 2019, or Covid-19, continues to spread even after the longest lockdown in the world, which shrank the Philippine economy far more than any other in Asia. Critics in the opposition and mainstream media also lambast President Rodrigo Duterte for his China policy, his bloody war on drugs, the alleged corruption in his administration and many more shortcomings.

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