The suspense will have been short-lived: arrested at his descent from the plane to Manila on Tuesday, March 11, on the faith of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) received at dawn, the former Philippin President Rodrigo Dutterte, 79, was put on an airplane that took off at 11 p.m. for the Hague, the headquarters of the CPIs in the Netherlands. The business jet that transports Mr. Duterte must land after a stopover in Dubai at Rotterdam airport at 11 a.m. on March 12.
The sequence, which has taken short the support of the former president, offers an immediate political gain to the current Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos as we approach the mid-term elections in May, if only because by moving M. Duterte from the Philippines, he weakens the motivations of his supporters to demonstrate. Mr. Marcos declared from Malacañang, the presidential palace, at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, that Manila was held by his commitments to Interpol: “If we do not do it, they will no longer help us in other cases involving Filipino fugitives abroad. »» Elected with the support of Mr. Duterte but scrambled with him, the son of Dictator Marcos benefits from the support of his camp, but also, ironically, left -wing movements and human rights defenders.
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