• People stand on sample ballots scattered outside a school polling precinct during the national elections in Manila. Czar Dancel / Reuters
    People stand on sample ballots scattered outside a school polling precinct during the national elections in Manila. Czar Dancel / Reuters
  • Filipino Nicolas Cawed, centre, chieftain of an Igorot Tribe, casts his vote inside a polling centre in the mountainous village of Baguio City, Philippines. Over 54 million eligible Filipinos vote for a new president, vice president, 12 senators and more than 18,000 regional and local positions. EPA / STR
    Filipino Nicolas Cawed, centre, chieftain of an Igorot Tribe, casts his vote inside a polling centre in the mountainous village of Baguio City, Philippines. Over 54 million eligible Filipinos vote for a new president, vice president, 12 senators and more than 18,000 regional and local positions. EPA / STR
  • Polling officers print documents from a vote counting machine after polls closed in the presidential election in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP
    Polling officers print documents from a vote counting machine after polls closed in the presidential election in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP
  • People wait in line in polling centres to cast their vote in Manila. Voters in the Philippines are set to elect Rodrigo Duterte, a tough-talking mayor of Davao City in Mindanao, pulling away from his rivals despite controversial speeches and little national government experience. Dondi Tawatao / Getty Images
    People wait in line in polling centres to cast their vote in Manila. Voters in the Philippines are set to elect Rodrigo Duterte, a tough-talking mayor of Davao City in Mindanao, pulling away from his rivals despite controversial speeches and little national government experience. Dondi Tawatao / Getty Images
  • Presidential front-runner and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte leaves the voting precinct after casting his vote at Daniel Aguinaldo National High School in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao. Noel Celis / AFP
    Presidential front-runner and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte leaves the voting precinct after casting his vote at Daniel Aguinaldo National High School in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao. Noel Celis / AFP
  • Philippine presidential candidate and former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas fills out his ballot at a school polling precinct during a national election in Roxas City, Capiz Province Central Philippines. Stringer / Reuters
    Philippine presidential candidate and former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas fills out his ballot at a school polling precinct during a national election in Roxas City, Capiz Province Central Philippines. Stringer / Reuters
  • Voters look for their names posted on a bulletin inside a school polling precinct during the national elections at Manila in the Philippines. Czar Dancel / Reuters
    Voters look for their names posted on a bulletin inside a school polling precinct during the national elections at Manila in the Philippines. Czar Dancel / Reuters
  • Filipino voters enter a polling station during the presidential election in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP
    Filipino voters enter a polling station during the presidential election in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP

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Millions of Filipinos vote in national elections - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

May 09, 2016

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Filipinos lined up Monday in blazing heat to elect a new president in a race whose frontrunner is a brash mayor known for his sex jokes, pledges to kill criminals and a promise to end corruption within six months.

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