Election officials say former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been elected as mayor in his home city by a landslide, despite his detention by the International Criminal Court.

Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ former strongman president, has just pulled off a political comeback for the history books. He won the mayoral race on May 12 in his southern stronghold of Davao City while locked up some 11,

According to Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Spokesperson Atty. John Rex Laudiangco, Duterte can still be proclaimed the winner, even in absentia, as long as there’s no legal order stopping it.