The Philippines’ 2025 midterm election could have marked a moment of reckoning for the decades-old populist Duterte dynasty. Its patriarch, 80-year-old former President Rodrigo, had been arrested by the International Criminal Court in March for alleged crimes against humanity.

As allies they won a landslide victory in the last presidential election in 2022.

"While all of this is happening, our countrymen are complaining about low wages, inflation and unaffordable costs of medicine," he said.

The Kanlaon Volcano, located on the central island of Negros in the Philippines, erupted early Tuesday morning, as reported by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The eruption,