Winners serve three-year terms, except for the president, vice president and senators, who serve six years. On a single ballot paper, each voter must select one candidate for each of the national positions, and their choice of congressional representative, governor, mayor, councillors and more. Posts contested include the presidency, vice presidency, 12 senate seats, 300 lower house seats, and roughly 18,000 local positions, from city mayors and provincial governors to local council seats across a country of 7,000 islands. Roughly 67.5 million of the 110 million population are eligible to vote and the vast majority of ballots will be cast on election day. Feb 8 (Reuters) - Campaigning began on Tuesday for the Philippines' election on May 9 that will decide thousands of positions across the archipelago nation, including who will take over from Rodrigo Duterte and become its president for the next six years.īelow is a rundown of what to expect.
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