Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric -- an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation’s oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Duterte’s PDP-Laban party won only three of the 297 seats in the House of Representatives while party president Koko Pimentel is its lone member in the 24-seat Senate. That made PDP-Laban what Filipinos call a “motorcycle party.” Yet within days of Duterte’s May 9 win, politicians from all sides rushed to join him. That’s how it goes in Philippine politics. Lawmakers did the same in 2010, abandoning Gloria Arroyo’s party in favor of then newly-elected ...
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