Rodrigo Duterte

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Rodrigo Duterte (2019)

Rodrigo "Rody" Roa Duterte (born March 28, 1945 in Maasin City , Leyte ) is a Filipino politician. He has been the President of the Philippines since June 30, 2016 . From 1988 to 1998, from 2001 to 2010 and again since 2013, he was mayor of Davao City , Mindanao . As a candidate for the Democratic Party of the Philippines - People's Power ( Partido Demokratiko Pilipino - Lakas ng Bayan, PDP-Laban ), he won the presidential election on May 9, 2016 . It is also popularly called Digong .

education and profession

Duterte grew up in Davao City, the largest city in the east of Mindanao Island. His mother Soledad was a teacher, his father Vicente a lawyer, before he was governor of the then undivided province of Davao (corresponds to today's Davao region ) in the 1950s to 1960s . Rodrigo Duterte studied law at San Beda College , Manila , graduated in 1972 and was admitted to the bar the following year. He then worked as an instructor at the regional national police academy. From 1977 to 1986 he worked for the Davao City Prosecutor as a prosecutor (Fiscal) . During the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and after the assassination of the opposition politician Benigno Aquino junior , Duterte's mother was a leader of the opposition movement "Yellow Friday" in Mindanao.

Mayor of Davao City

Duterte at a rally in 2009

After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986 - after his mother had resigned from office - he was appointed deputy mayor of Davao City by the new government under Corazon Aquino . In the following elections in 1988 he was elected to the office of mayor of the city and re-elected in 1992 and 1995. Duterte lit a Singaporean flag against the background of the execution of the Filipino maid Flor Contemplacion in Singapore in 1995 . In 1998 he ran for a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives and won the election. He represented Davao City's number 1 constituency - the city is divided into three constituencies. His term of office as a member of parliament lasted from 1998 to 2001. According to his own statement, he was bored with parliamentary work. In 2001, he ran again for mayor in Davao City and won the election. In 2004 and 2007 he was re-elected. The mayoral election in 2010 won - with Duterte's support - his daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio , who replaced him in this office on June 28, 2010. Rodrigo Duterte himself was elected Vice Mayor. In May 2013 he was re-elected mayor and his son Paolo was elected vice-mayor.

Duterte's supporters attribute his leadership as mayor to reducing crime and creating order, which they see as a great success. Duterte introduced the central emergency number “911” in Davao City. The city is considered to be exceptionally clean, speed limits and seat belts are strictly observed (in contrast to other parts of the Philippines), and young people are curfewed at night. In large parts there is a smoking ban. Duterte once forced a tourist who did not obey this to swallow his cigarette butt. To combat crime, Duterte is said to have also used paramilitary troops - so-called death squads - which are said to have carried out more than 1,000 extrajudicial executions . According to Amnesty International , among the victims were mainly young gang members from poorer districts and petty criminal street children, but also members of the left-wing opposition Akbayan party . According to a 2009 report by the UN Human Rights Council , Duterte did at least not do anything about these killings and even spoke positively about them in public. Time magazine nicknamed him “The Punisher” in a 2002 article . According to his own statements, he personally killed at least three people. In addition, the contract killer Edgar Matobato, who, according to his own statements, also carried out orders for Duterte, testified that the latter had personally shot an officer of the National Investigation Authority.

Furthermore, Duterte campaigned for LGBT rights; in 2012 he issued an anti-discrimination ordinance that prohibited discrimination against homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people, ethnic minorities and the disabled. He openly nominated, at a time when this was unusual, gay candidates on his party's electoral list and campaigned for a gay candidate who had been expelled from the electoral commission. He will "consider" opening up marriage to same-sex couples.

In his election campaign, Duterte promised to have the former tyrant Marcos buried in the Heroes' Cemetery; he is now considered a good friend of the Marcos clan, which has long been influential again. The Hero's Funeral for Marcos is a long and bitter controversy in the Philippines.

Presidential election

Logo for the presidential election and candidacy of Rodrigo Duterte and Alan Peter Cayetano
Duterte (3rd from left) at the summit of the Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in Vientiane , Laos , September 7, 2016

In 2015, Duterte publicly confirmed his ties to the illegal death squads in Davao and announced that he would kill up to 100,000 criminals if he was elected president. He considers the reintroduction of the death penalty , which was abolished in 2006, to be an effective means of combating crime. Duterte advocates a federalization of the Philippines, i.e. the transfer of competences of the central government to regional units. According to Duterte, this would help resolve corruption, crime and the Bangsamoro conflict. His election promises included calling a constituent assembly within two years of his presidency . He also announced that if he was elected he would dissolve Congress and appoint a "revolutionary government"; all officials and officers should offer their resignation so that he could replace them with more capable ones. In November 2015, Duterte formally declared his presidential candidacy and named Senator Alan Peter Cayetano , a member of the Nacionalista Party who ran as an independent, as his running mate .

He is known for “jokes” expressed in public, which observers describe as “brash,” tasteless, or vulgar. As mayor in November 2015, he described Pope Francis as a “son of a bitch” because he caused traffic problems during his visit to Manila ; he later stated that he did not want to attack the Pope but refused to apologize. Referring to the gang rape and murder of an Australian missionary in Davao City in 1989, he said at a campaign rally that the victim was beautiful and that he regretted not being admitted first as mayor. When the ambassadors of Australia and the United States protested against these statements, Duterte urged them to "shut up" and threatened to sever diplomatic relations with these states if elected. At the end of the election campaign, he shouted to his supporters: “Forget laws and human rights!” Because of his unusual, apparently ill-considered political proposals and “bullying” remarks, he was compared to the American President Donald Trump in German-language reporting .

Duterte won the presidential election with 39% and was a long way ahead of second-placed Mar Roxas from the previously ruling Liberals, who came in with 23.5%. The liberal Leni Robredo , who was Roxas' running mate, was elected vice president (the naming of running mates is not binding on voters in the Philippines).

Term of office as president

Duterte on his state visit to Japan with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and members of his delegation in the Kantei in Tokyo , October 2016

On June 30, 2016, Duterte was sworn in as President. He is the first Filipino President to come from the southern island of Mindanao.

On the day he took office, he gave a public speech in a slum in Manila calling for the murder of drug addicts, drug dealers and criminals. More than 2,000 drug dealers and addicts were killed in the Philippines in July and August . According to the Philippine police, there were 402 deaths in raids and around 5,500 arrests in July alone. Around 600,000 people gave themselves up. Some shootings were carried out by the police and the military , who were ordered not to fire warning shots but to kill them immediately ( extrajudicial execution ), but also by unknown shooters ( vigilante justice ) who did not belong to the security forces (so-called death squads ). According to human rights activists, most of those killed are petty dealers; the “big fish”, on the other hand, would be spared. No one was held accountable for the killings.

The international community reacts helplessly, the then Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon condemned his “War on Drugs” just two weeks after Duterte took office, stating that the extrajudicial killings were illegal and a violation of fundamental rights. Duterte stressed that he would not stop the campaign until the last drug lord and the last dealer had surrendered and was behind bars. As a result, more than 200 NGOs issued a joint statement calling on the UN and the International Narcotics Control Council (INCB) to get the Philippines back to comply with international legal standards. US President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with Duterte on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou after he was insulted by Duterte. In a speech otherwise held in English, in which he addressed Obama on television, he addressed him in Tagalog with putang ina mo (German: your mother is a whore ).

In a speech in Davao City on September 30, 2016, Duterte made the media-acclaimed statement that just as Adolf Hitler murdered three million Jews in the Holocaust (correct: six million), he would like to kill the three million drug addicts in the Philippines. After protests, Duterte expressed regret for the comparison with the Holocaust.

Duterte was among the first foreign state representatives to be invited by the new US President Donald Trump at the end of April 2017 after a "very friendly phone call" (in connection with the rocket crisis between the USA and North Korea in 2017).

During the COVID-19 pandemic , Duterte issued a public statement in April 2020 calling on the Philippine police to shoot people who do not comply with the exit restrictions in the country. Hundreds of people were locked in overcrowded cells or dog cages. In addition, Duterte declared a state of emergency for three months and secured special rights that enable arbitrary arrests.

Personal life, family and religious beliefs

Rodrigo Duterte was married to Elizabeth Zimmerman, who had German-American ancestors, from 1973 to 2000. The marriage was annulled at Zimmerman's request . With her he has three children, Paolo, Sara and Sebastian. In 2001 Zimmerman ran against Duterte for mayor's office in Davao City, but was defeated. With his current partner, Honeylet Avanceña, Duterte has a daughter named Veronica, who was born in Los Angeles in 2004 and is a US national .

Duterte was raised Catholic, but is not a regular churchgoer. His son Paolo is married to a Muslim and converted to Islam, which is why four of Duterte's eight grandchildren grew up Muslims. In 2018 and 2019, Duterte's derogatory comments on the Christian faith attracted international attention.

Web links

Commons : Rodrigo Duterte  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Rodrigo Duterte sworn in as the new President NZZ , June 30, 2016, accessed on the same day.
  3. ^ A night of fright reveals a virtue of Digong , Sun Star , June 19, 2013, accessed July 22, 2014
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  5. ↑ a b c Carolyn O. Arguillas: Rodrigo Roa Duterte: 16th President, first Mindanawon to lead the country. In: Minda News , May 11, 2016.
  6. ↑ Manila Standard: Thumbs Up for Duterte! , March 26, 1995, accessed April 7, 2010
  7. ^ Official site of the city about the political structure, last accessed on March 22, 2010. ( Memento of November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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  9. ^ Zabriskie, Phil: The Punisher , Time magazine (Asia edition), June 24, 2002. URL last accessed on October 12, 2006.
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personal data
SURNAME Duterte, Rodrigo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duterte, Rodrigo Roa; Duterte, Rody
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Maasin City , Leyte