Minutes after former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte was bundled onto a plane bound for The Hague to face a charge of crimes against humanity, President Ferdinand Marcos said of the arrest: "Politics doesn't enter into it."

Complying with the International Criminal Court warrant tied to his predecessor's deadly drug war was simply a matter of the Philippines meeting its international obligations, he told reporters.

But Tuesday's shocking arrest, which comes barely a month after the impeachment of Duterte's daughter Sara, the country's vice president, has left the family's national political fortunes in deep peril, analysts told AFP.

"Let me put it this way. Their situation wasn't promising in the first place, even before all of these things happened," said Michael Henry Yusingco, senior fellow at the Ateneo Policy Center, pointing to polling for May's mid-term elections.

Only three candidates from Duterte's PDP Laban party are on track to grab one of the 12 nationally elected Senate seats, while Marcos's ruling New Philippines Alliance has eight candidates firmly among the........

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