Rodrigo Duterte turned into the sixteenth president of the
Philippines on Monday when a joint session of Congress pronounced him the
winner of a May 9 election race, succeeding Benigno Aquino who steps down one
month from now following his six years in office.
The tough-talking Duterte, leader of Davao City in the
south, crusaded on the single issue of pulverizing wrongdoing and now confronts
an intimidating task of settling the infrastructure, making employments and
lifting more than a quarter of the 100 million populace out of destitution.
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"I hereby proclaim Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Maria Leonor
Gerona Robredo as the duly elected president and vice president of the Republic
of the Philippines," Senator Franklin Drilon and Congressman Feliciano
Belmonte said in a joint session of Congress.
Aquino's ally Robredo defetead the child of the late
dictator Ferdinand Marcos to become vice president.
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Duterte, 71, was in Davao on Monday and was announced winner in absentia.
Duterte, 71, was in Davao on Monday and was announced winner in absentia.
He won the tallies of almost 40 percent of 44 million
voters, attracted by his prosperity against wrongdoing in Davao,
notwithstanding the inquiries his approaches raised among human rights
campaigners.
Duterte has been scrutinized for permitting a spree of
vigilante killings, and commentators dread he could give them a chance to
happen on a bigger scale as president.
He has denied requesting killings, yet has not censured
them.
CONTINUATION IN ECONOMIC POLICY
The former prosecutor has said he will proceed with his predecessor's
monetary approaches, which concentrated on infrastructure and financial
proficiency, to push development up to 7-8 percent.
Development has been all things considered 6 percent a year
under Aquino, however it has not deciphered into employments and change in the
lives of ordinary Filipinos.
Among a few arrangements Duterte has declared is Ernesto
Pernia, an economics professor from the University of the Philippines, as
economic planning secretary, and a former agriculture secretary, Carlos
Dominguez, as finance minister.
Duterte hasn’t announced his cabinet members.
The president also succeeded a territorial disagreement with
China but he has demonstrated his eagerness to repair strained ties by
welcoming Chinese investment and offering to set aside sovereignty issues in exploring
the resources in the South China Ocean. He has said he won't forsake Philippine
claims.
Duterte has likewise said he would seek after peace with
Marxist guerrillas and has even offered their leaders government roles.
He has said he we wants a fair distribution of power and
wealth and has called Congress to revise a 1987 constitution to take into
account of a federal system of government to accommodate Muslim rebels in the
south.
But conflict looks to be emerging with the influential Roman
Catholic church.
Duterte has said he will disobey the congregation and try to
force a three-kid approach and has called Philippine religious administrators
"sons of whores".
(Reporting by Manuel Mogato and Karen Lema; Editing by
Robert Birsel)
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