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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte was riding high not so long ago, sailing to a landslide 2022 election victory with her then-ally and fellow political scion Ferdinand Marcos.

Less than three years later, the alliance between their powerful families lies in ruins and she is facing a battle for her political life in a Senate impeachment trial, accused of fraud, corruption and plotting to assassinate her former running mate. 

AFP looks at how Duterte rose to prominence and what precipitated her spectacular fall.

Where did she come from?

She punched her way into the national consciousness in 2011 while mayor of the family's southern stronghold of Davao, slugging a sheriff as television cameras rolled when he ignored her plea to delay the court-ordered demolition of a slum community.

It established her credentials as a politician who would fight for the poor -- a huge voting demographic in the archipelago nation of 117 million.

As her popular father's presidency entered its final months, she surged in the polls to become the frontrunner in the May 2022 presidential ele

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