MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has come out the leader in a new poll conducted by Pulse Asia, beating Senator Grace Poe, Vice President Jejomar Binay, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
As Duterte supporters celebrated the new survey results, Pulse Asia issued a clarification that the poll was not about the people’s choice for president of the Philippines. Rather, it was a poll on who respondents think would be elected mayor of Davao City if elections were held this month.
Duterte is a declared candidate for Davao City mayor. He has yet to officially file his candidacy for president.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Many Filipinos want him to run for president, but he continues to assert that he is not interested. He is Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of Davao, a major city in the Philippines’ island of Mindanao.
He is oftentimes called “The Punisher,” noted for tolerating extrajudicial killings of alleged criminals. He always talks tough and does not hold back on his public comments, even if they seem to be inappropriate coming from an elected official.
Well, today, in a television interview by openly-gay host Vice Ganda, Duterte admitted he used to be gay, but that he is “now reformed.” Duterte was a guest on Vice Ganda’s talk show, “Gandang Gabi.”
His admission shocked even his closest supporters who always looked up to him as a role model for Filipino macho men.
But his comments were welcomed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which took Duterte’s statement as an opportunity during Sunday masses all over the country to remind the faithful that homosexuality is a choice, and that gay men and women can be reformed, just like Duterte.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Many Filipinos are urging him to run for president in 2016, despite his reputation as a gun-toting mayor who has no problem with extra-judicial killings of criminals and drug traffickers. He is Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of Davao, one of the major cities in the Philippines’ Mindanao island.
Although he has repeatedly said in public that he has no intention of running for higher public office, Duterte went on record that if he becomes president, he will abolish Congress and form a revolutionary government to totally rid the government of corruption.
He has also promised to bring back high educational standards by banning Facebook and mandating instead that young people use Google.
“I am sick and tired of our youth using Facebook as their primary news source while wasting hours and hours posting and commenting on insignificant events in their already empty lives,” Duterte said. “They should instead use Google to enrich their knowledge about history, geography and science while keeping abreast on world developments that have a direct impact on our country,” he added.
Duterte criticized Mark Zuckerberg for the latter’s effort to provide free Facebook access in the Philippines. At the same time, he said he would encourage Google to set up operations in the Philippines, including the inclusion of Google Search in all school curricula, as a way to bring about a truly informed and intelligent citizenry.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has come out the leader in a new poll conducted by Pulse Asia, beating Senator Grace Poe, Vice President Jejomar Binay, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
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