Thursday, August 4, 2016

First Mindanaoan President: Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte

"IF YOU DESTROY OUR CHILDREN, OUR COUNTRY, I WILL KILL YOU."

Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte as the cover of TIME Magazine
(Photo by: Tammy David)


Labeled as "The Punisher", the newly elected president of the Philippines still wants to call him 'Mayor' inspite the fact that he is now the President. He wants people to see him as a simple individual who eats rice and breaths same air as his countrymen.  He even disregarded the title "HIS EXCELLENCY" during his first SONA. 

Mindanao, second largest island in the Philippines. A person from Mindanao is called Mindanaoan. You could be a citizen for a long time or your ethnicity and roots could be from a place in Mindanao.  Mindanao is ethnically, socially, and religiously diverted. President Duterte being a resident of Davao City, largest city in the Philippines, has been a very eager leader in town politically serving Davao for more than two decades as the city Mayor and also has been the Vice Mayor. He had a lot of accomplishments including the improvement of Davao making it to be included in the list of the safest cities in the world. Not only he is a very active participant of productivity in Davao but also in different places making him very influential and respected.

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