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Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his first press conference since claiming victory in the presidential election at a restaurant in the city of Davao on the southern island of Mindanao on May 15, 2016.
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Here’s a look at the life of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
date of birth: March 28, 1945
birth place: Masin, Southern Leyte, Philippines
birth name: Rodrigo Roa Duterte
Father: Vicente Duterte, lawyer and politician
Mother: Soledad (Roa) Duterte, teacher
marriage: Elizabeth Zimmerman (2000. canceled in)
children: With Elizabeth Zimmerman: Paolo, Sebastian and Sarah; With Honeylett Avansena: Veronica
Education: Lyceum of the University of the Philippines, BA, 1968; San Beda College, JD, 1972
Religion: Roman Catholic
Duterte was mayor of the city of Davao for seven terms and 22 years, though not continuously.
His father was the governor of the unified Davao and a member of the cabinet of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Duterte’s daughter, Sarah Duterte, is the mayor of the city of Davao.
Once compared himself to Adolf Hitler, He was saying that he would kill lakhs of drug addicts.
Damned Pope Francis For traffic problems caused by the Pontiff’s visit to the Philippines.
For decades, he has reportedly been tied to a “death squad” in the city of Davao.
announced that he would urge Congress to reinstate death sentence by hanging in the Philippines.
1977-1986 – Special Counsel, and then the city prosecutor of Davao City.
1986-1988 – Deputy Mayor of Davao City.
1988-1998 – Mayor of the city of Davao.
1995 – Duterte leads protesters burning the Singapore flag after Flor Contemplasian, a Filipino domestic worker, was hanged in Singapore for the 1991 murder of his colleague.
1998-2001 – Be the first congressman to represent the first district of Davao City.
2001-2010 – Mayor of the city of Davao.
6 April 2009 – Human Rights Watch published the findings of its “Dawao Death Squad” investigation, Investigating more than two dozen murders in 2007 and 2008. The findings show no direct connection to the killings and Duterte, but provide evidence of a complex relationship between government officials and members of the DDS.
24 May 2015 – He has vowed to kill 100,000 criminals And throw their bodies in the Gulf of Manila.
April 2016 – Duterte came under fire after making a controversial remark during a campaign rally about the 1989 prison riots that led to the rape and murder of a female missionary. According to the CNN Philippines translation of the video, he says, “They raped her, they were standing beside her. I was furious that she was raped, yes that was a thing. But she was so beautiful, I thought The mayor should have been first. How useless.” His party issues an apology, but it is later denied by Duterte..
30 May 2016 – The Philippine Congress officially declared Duterte the winner of the May 9 presidential election. After the completion of official count.
30 June 2016 – assumes office as chairman.
5 August 2016 – In a speech, he claimed that he had said US Secretary of State John Kerry He US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg is a “homosexual son of a bitch”.
7 September 2016 – Duterte and US President Barack Obama Meet briefly in Laos while attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. The two were due to meet ahead of bilateral talks on the South China Sea, but due to Duterte’s fiery rhetoric, Obama called off their meeting.
15 September 2016 – a witness, Edgar Matobato, testifying before a Philippine Senate committee, claims he is a member of Duterte’s alleged “Dawao Death Squad”. And that the Philippine President ordered the execution of drug dealers, rapists and thieves. The committee was set up to investigate alleged extra-judicial killings in the three months since Duterte became president.
4 October 2016 – The Philippines and the United States began joint military exercises in Manila, which Duterte claims will be the last under the decade-long historic Advanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.
October 20, 2016 – Duterte announced at the PH-China Trade and Investment Forum, “In this venue I declare my separation from America; militarily, [but] not socially [and] financially. “
29 November 2016 – Nine members of Duterte’s security team injured After the president hit his convoy with an explosive device ahead of his planned visit to the city of Marawi.
12 December 2016 – accepts Murders of suspected criminals during his time as mayor of the city of Davao.
November 9, 2017 – Ahead of APEC’s meeting with regional leaders, Duterte In the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, tells a group of Filipino migrants that When he was 16, he stabbed someone to death.
November 13, 2017 – US President Donald Trump and duterte The White House announced, “briefly” discussed the Philippines’ bloody war on human rights and drugs during their closed-door talks. However, Duterte’s spokesman told reporters that “human rights did not arise” during the meeting.
8 February 2018 – NS International Criminal Court (ICC) say it’s an opening preliminary examination Regarding the position of the Philippines in relation to the extrajudicial killings. The examination will “particularly analyze the offenses alleged to have been committed in the context of the ‘War on Drugs’ campaign with effect from 1st July, 2016.” Duterte’s spokesman told reporters that the President “Welcomes this preliminary test because he is sick and tired of being accused of having committed crimes against humanity.”
5 December 2018 – NS ICC report That they have “reasonable grounds to proceed with the preliminary examination” in the alleged extra-judicial killings of thousands of people since July 1, 2016.
March 17, 2019 – The Philippines officially leaves the ICC. The action taken after the 12-month waiting period required by ICC statute is as follows: Preliminary announcement made on 14 March 2018.
October 5, 2020 – Duterte revealed that he has a chronic neuromuscular disease. In a speech in Moscow, he tells a crowd of Filipinos living in the Russian capital that he had myasthenia gravis, which he describes as a “nerve malfunction”, reports CNN Philippines.
March 12, 2020 – Duterte places Metro Manila under community quarantine To prevent the spread of new coronavirus (COVID-19) in the metropolis from March 15 to April 14.
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