(12 May 2025)
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Quezon City, Philippines – 12 May 2025
1. Voters casting ballots
2. Wide of polling station
3. Voters queuing to vote at polling station
4. Wide of people voting
5. Voters filling in ballot forms inside polling station
6. Voters filling in ballots
7. Voters queuing to cast their ballots
8. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Roanne Capili, teacher:
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"I’m here because I want to vote. For me, voting is important because it would add something for the progress of the Philippines. If I didn’t vote, it would be a missed chance of exercising your right to vote. It’s our right to vote and we should not take it for granted."
9. Wide of polling station
10. Voters queuing for polling station
11. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Maybileen Tañon, voter:
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"Every Filipino has the right to vote. I will vote because I believe in a better Philippines. I believe in the platforms and promises of the senators and other government officials I voted for."
12. Voters filling in ballots
13. Wide of voters inside polling station
STORYLINE:
Millions of people turned out to voted in midterm elections in the Philippines on Monday, with detained former president Rodrigo Duterte among the candidates vying for some 18,000 national and local seats.
Over 68 million Filipinos have registered to vote for half of the 24-member Senate, all the 317 seats in the House of Representatives and various positions in provinces, cities and municipalities.
"I’m here because I want to vote," said teacher Roanne Capili at a polling station.
"If I didn’t vote, it would be a missed chance of exercising your right to vote. It’s our right to vote and we should not take it for granted," she added.
The spotlight is on the race for the Senate that could determine the political future of Duterte’s daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte.
Some analysts say the polls will decide if he and his family continue to hold political power.
Duterte has been in custody of the International Criminal Court in The Hague since March, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity over a brutal war on illegal drugs that has left thousands of suspects dead during his presidency 2016-2022.
It hasn’t stopped him from running for mayor of his southern Davao city stronghold.
Under Philippine law, candidates facing criminal charges, including those in detention, can run for office unless they have been convicted and have exhausted all appeals.
AP Video shot by Basilio Sepe
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