Analysts say Marcos’s rhetorical deftness has helped buoy his administration’s lacklustre performance in public’s eyes.


Analysts say Marcos’s rhetorical deftness has helped buoy his administration’s lacklustre performance in public’s eyes.

A victory by the eight time world boxing champion against Cuban Yordenis Ugás could recalibrate 2022 presidential race.
![Manny Pacquiao enters the ring to face Keith Thurman for their WBA welterweight championship bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena on July 20, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada [File: Joe Camporeale/USA Today]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-08-11T190140Z_225966911_RC273P91XL57_RTRMADP_3_BOXING-PACQUIAO-UGAS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Philippines is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Southeast Asia but many are reluctant to get the jab.
![The Philippines vaccination programme has been held up by the slow arrival of supplies as well as vaccine hesitancy [File: Lisa Marie David/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-05-21T102736Z_1949380478_RC2AKN9Q1U31_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-PHILIPPINES-VACCINE.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Public turns against the government after an official calls volunteers of feeding initiative communist sympathisers.
![Residents collect free food packets from a food bank run by volunteers called a 'community pantry' along a road in suburban Manila [Ted Aljibe/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98F46J.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Faced with an alarming wave of infections, medical staff have the grim job of deciding life and death for patients.
![On Friday, the health department reported 10,726 new infections, bringing the overall case count to 914,971. Deaths have reached 15,738 [Aaron Favila/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21085435261422.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Video of a confused altercation on lockdown rules exposes fundamental errors in the Duterte’s pandemic response.
![The Duterte government has responded to the pandemic in much the same way as it did to other national problems: a law-and-order crackdown with heavy policing [Jam Sta Rosa/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_96Y2LM.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Depression, sexual abuse among challenges young Filipinos face as record-breaking COVID cases force another lockdown.
![A new wave of COVID-19 has led to renewed restrictions in Manila and an order for all under-18s to stay at home for two weeks [File: Lisa Marie David/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-02-25T130110Z_1301599420_RC2PZL9C718T_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-PHILIPPINES.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Evening curfews imposed in Manila as the country reports highest number of daily coronavirus cases in seven months.
![A Manila resident at a street entrance ahead of a lockdown in the Philippine capital as the number of new daily cases soars past 5,000 [Ted Aljibe/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_94N2J9-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Nine pro-Duterte candidates look set to win in Senate polls, boosting his already favourable numbers in 24-seat chamber.

More than 18,000 posts are at stake, including half of the seats in the upper house Senate.
