Filipino voters queue outside the gate of a polling station before the presidential and vice presidential elections at a polling centre in Manila on May 9, 2016. - AFP
MANILA: Voting was underway in the Philippines on Monday to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals.
Polls opened at 6am and voting was to continue until 5pm, election officials said.
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