After his eighty birthday, Rodrigo Dutti, a man who has once pledged to purify his country through a bloody drug control and crime, He found himself outperforming the reservation.

The former president was met by the Philippine police when he arrived in Manila on a trip from Hong Kong, where he was crowded with support for his candidates in the mid -time elections between the great Filipino diaspora there.

It turned out that the excessive arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was already in the hands of the Philippine government, which moved quickly to implement it.

The weak -looking dutterte, who walks with a stick, was transferred to the air force base inside the airport. A rented plane has been quickly prepared to transport it to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

How did this happen? How is the man strong and popular, often called “Trump Asia”, very low?

In vain, his lawyers and members of his family protested that the detention had no legal basis and complained that the weak health of Duter was neglected.

While he was in office, Mr. Duttrt formed an alliance with the Marcus family – the children of developed dictator Ferdinand Marcus who have been working for a long time on a political return. Mr. Doterti could not run again in the 2022 elections, but his daughter Sarah, the mayor of the southern city of Davao, was a rumor and a strong competitor to replace him.

However, the son of Ferdinand Marcos Bongbong, who was in politics throughout his life, was in a good position to win and a very good financier.

The two families concluded a deal. They will work together to obtain Bongbong in the presidency and Sarah in the vice president, assuming that the upcoming elections in 2028 will come and have a huge Marcus machine behind.

I worked. Both won their locations with a wide margin. Mr. Dotti expected that his alliance would protect him from any reaction to his controversial presidency as soon as he comes out of power.

The most dangerous threat to him was an investigation by the International Criminal Court in his sin for thousands of killings outside the scope of the judiciary that was carried out during the medication control campaigns he requested – after he became president in 2016, but also during his term as mayor of the southern Davao city of 2011.

Mr. Dotti withdrew the Philippines from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in 2019, but prosecutors argued that they still have a mandate to consider alleged crimes against humanity that committed this, and launched an official investigation in 2021.

This situation changed only after the dramatic collapse of the Dteterte-Marcos alliance. The strains in their relationship were clear from the early days of the administration, when Sarah Doterti’s request was rejected to control the strong Ministry of Defense and was granted the Ministry of Education instead.

President Marcus also distanced himself from his mercury predecessors ’policies, reforming fences with the United States, standing in China in the disputed seas, and stopping the threats that leak blood from drug dealers.

In the end, these ambitious clans, thirsty for power aimed at controlling the Philippine policy, and there was not enough force to participate. Relations arrived in Nader last year when Sarah Doterti announced that she had rented a murderer to kill President Marcus, in the event of anything to her.

At the end of last year, the Congress of Congress, which is controlled by Marcus, submitted a petition to the dismissal of Mrs. Dotti. This trial is scheduled to take place in the Senate later this year.

If it is isolated, according to the constitution, it will be prevented from occupying his high political position, killing her long -term presidential ambitions and weakening the political power of the league further.

President Marcus seems to have moved wisely to neutralize his main political rival. But its strategy is not free of risk. Dutetes is still common in most countries, and he may be able to mobilize protests against the trial of the former president.

Sarah Dotti issued a statement accusing the government of her father’s surrender of “foreign powers” and the violation of the Philippine sovereignty.

The early test of each of the clans will be the elections in the middle of the period in May.

In his comments on journalists after the plane carrying his predecessor from Manila insisted, President Marcus insisted that he had fulfilled the country’s obligations to Interpol, who surrendered the International Criminal Court. But it was sighted about the fact that it was something that was implemented, given that many Filipinos would ask about what the International Criminal Court adapter in a country has already left his jurisdiction.

It is not free to ICC as well. The court is a besieging institution these days, where the Trump administration threatens to arrest its senior officials if they travel to the United States, and a few countries are ready to hand over those accused. Consequently, getting former President Doterti to The Hague may seem a high -level success.

But there was a warning, from China – it is recognized that it is not signed for the International Criminal Court and is currently institutionalized at the top of the records with the Philippines – and not to politicize the International Criminal Court cases. This was a thin indication of the fact that this issue, which is supposed to be about accountability for serious international crimes, has ended up playing a decisive role in a local conflict in the Philippines between two competitors.