The 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines: Party system pathologies and Duterte’s populist mobilization

• Main Authors: Teehankee, Julio C., Kasuya, Yuko
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Elections > Philippines; Philippines—Politics and government—1986-; Rodrigo Roa Duterte, 1945; Populism-Philippines; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/457
• Institution: De La Salle University

The May 13, 2019 midterm elections were generally seen as a referendum on the first three years of the presidency of Rodrigo R Duterte. The elections tested and consolidated the political strength of Duterte as the country’s populist strongman president. Most of the national and local candidates he...