Duterte's Senate bets gain numbers in latest survey

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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:

- Duterte Senate bets surge in Pulse Asia poll after ex-president’s ICC arrest
- Escudero tells off Imee Marcos: Don’t erode Senate credibility for ‘personal gain’
- DFA: Philippines’ arrest of Duterte not covered by US sanctions vs ICC
- Vico Sotto hits smear campaign involving PWD: ‘Some people will do everything for money and power’
- Kerwin Espinosa says he received death threat before gun attack in Leyte

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:05Rodrigo Duterte's Senate bets see a rise in their numbers in a recent Pulse Asia survey

00:17Senate President Cheez Escudero rebukes Aimee Marcos for using the Senate for her re-election

00:23campaign. Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo says the Philippines' arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is

00:29not covered by the U.S. sanctions versus ICC. Pasig City Mayor Vico Soto slams a smear campaign

00:35that involves persons with disabilities. And Leyte Mayoral Bet, Gruen Espinoza, says a big

00:41politician masterminded his attack. Senatorial candidates backed by former President Rodrigo

00:49Duterte saw a rise in voter support after he was sent to The Hague to face crimes against humanity.

00:54This, according to a Pulse Asia Research Inc. survey released on Friday, April 11.

01:01Senator Bong Goh, Duterte's longtime aide, takes the top spot with 61.9% voter preference,

01:0710 percentage points higher than administration bet Erwin Tulfo, who got 51.1%.

01:13Tulfo's numbers dropped from 62.8% in January 2025 to 56.5% in February 2025.

01:21Senator Bato De La Rosa's preference number rises by 4 percentage points to 48.7%,

01:28placing him in second to third in the March 2025 survey.

01:32Other Duterte bets with rise in their numbers enough to enter the quote,

01:35probable winner's circle include Philip Salvador and Rodante Marcoleta.

01:40Meantime, presidential sister Aimee Marcos had the most loss with her numbers dropping from 46.3%

01:46in January 2025 to 27.6% in March 2025.

01:52Independent candidates, Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan, meantime, see their numbers stay mostly the same.

01:59Senate President Cheese Escudero calls out Senator Aimee Marcos for allegedly using the Senate to support her re-election campaign,

02:06saying it damages the institution's credibility.

02:09Escudero issues a statement the day after Marcos accused him of refusing to sign the contempt order for Marcos Lacanilau,

02:16the envoy who represented the Philippines during former President Rodrigo Duterte's surrender to the International Criminal Court.

02:22He says under the Senate rules, quote,

02:24the power of the committee chairperson to order the arrest or detention of any resource person cited in contempt

02:30is subject to the approval of the Senate President.

02:32He also says, quote,

02:34I did not refuse to sign the contempt order of Ambassador Marcos Lacanilau.

02:39Senator Marcos released her statement and flaunted to the media her signed arrest and detention order,

02:43even before I could see, much less, receive a copy of it.

02:48Escudero emphasizes he will not allow the Senate or the office of the Senate President

02:52to be used for further political interests, especially by those seeking re-election.

02:56Meantime, Justice Department officials say an internal memorandum shown by Marcos in a committee hearing was,

03:02quote, fake and manufactured.

03:05The senator now dismisses the document as, quote, not material.

03:10Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo says former President Rodrigo Duterte's arrest by Philippine authorities

03:16will not be covered by U.S. President Donald Trump's sanctions against those helping the International Criminal Court.

03:22We have cooperated with Interpol.

03:23That's why I don't believe we fall under that U.S. executive order.

03:28Trump signed an executive order last February to sanction people who help ICC investigations.

03:34The move aims to protect U.S. ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

03:38who faces an ICC arrest order over the bombings in Gaza.

03:42Human rights lawyers are worried that Trump's executive order is worded so vaguely it could apply even to Filipinos.

03:49This is what Senators Aimee Marcos and Bato Dalarosa are proposing,

03:53with Dalarosa saying that the plane owners that flew Duterte to The Hague could have their U.S. assets frozen.

04:00Plastic City Mayor Vico Soto speaks out against a smear campaign on social media where people,

04:06including a woman with a mental disability,

04:08were made to film videos criticizing his administration while lining up for charity.

04:13In a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon, April 10,

04:15Soto pointed out that some individuals seem willing to do anything for money and power.

04:20Citing Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gachalian's interview,

04:24Soto says the department is looking into the, quote,

04:26systematic exploitation of PWDs and senior citizens in a negative political campaign in Pasig City.

04:33In a video posted on the Facebook page, the journal Pasig, which has since been taken down,

04:37a woman is seen answering questions from someone off-camera.

04:40She says she hasn't received aid or her PWD pension and hoped for a rise from the local government.

04:46When asked if she will vote for Mayor Soto again, she says not anymore and named his rival,

04:52Sara Deskaya, as her choice.

04:54I'm calling out this dirty page, said Facebook user Malaya Scarlet,

04:58reported by ABS-CBN to be the woman's relative.

05:01She adds, quote,

05:02In a statement posted on Diskaya's Facebook page, April 11,

05:14Team Kaya This said it would cooperate fully with the authorities in their investigation.

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05:41In an interview with Rappler, Albuere Leyte mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinoza

05:45says his attackers are policemen.

05:48He adds, a big politician masterminded the attack.

05:50There are some penetrators or gunmen.

05:58When the names are released, they're police.

06:07They're not people of orderly.

06:10They're police.

06:11He also says his campaign staff was warned by an unidentified individual

06:15that he would not survive to see the end of the election period.

06:18There was a message to him that I'm not going to be able to go to the election.

06:27If I finish the election, I'm going to be angry.

06:35Espinoza was shot on Thursday, April 10,

06:37while campaigning at the gymnasium of Barangay Tinagaan in Albuere Town, Leyte.

06:42He also claims that the attack was, quote, budgeted.

07:11And that's today's wrap.

07:14I'm Michelle Abad.

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