Teachers verify ballots at the Makati City Hall ahead of the 2022 national elections in Metro Manila, Philippines, on May 6, 2022. - Reuters
MANILA (AFP): Philippine election rivals traded allegations of dirty tricks and vote-rigging on Friday (May 6), in the final stretch of an acerbic campaign that is tipped to bring the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos to power.
After months of fierce campaigning marked by relentless misinformation and an online whitewashing of the country's violent history, rivals Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Leni Robredo implicated each other in underhand tactics.
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