Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa is seeking to be elected as mayor of Albuera, a town of around 50,000 people in the Leyte province of the Phiippines.

His father, Rolando Espinosa, was elected as the town’s mayor in May 2016 – also on an anti-drugs platform – but was later arrested on drug-related charges and shot dead in his jail cell in November 2016.

The younger Espinosa told the Philippine Daily Inquirer: “Because of my wrong decisions and involvement in illegal drugs, my father died.

“I do not want others to experience what I went through. I have seen the harmful effects of drugs on people. It is not good.”

He is running alongside his younger sister, Mariel, who is running for the position of vice-mayor.