{"id":5954,"date":"2016-05-21T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:46:55","slug":"rodrigo-duterte-as-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/05\/21\/rodrigo-duterte-as-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Duterte as a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

The presidency is all but official. Four out of the five candidates have conceded to the now-presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte. When the votes for president are canvassed on May 25, none of that will matter because there\u2019s no one left to challenge Duterte.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Davao<\/p>\n

CHANGE IS COMING. These words echoed throughout his campaign, and now, he gets a crack at turning our country around. (Photo courtesy of <\/em>Keith Kristoffer Bacongco via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/a>)<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Most people have only seen the tough-talking Davao City Mayor from what he has shown in his sorties. Only the citizens of Davao City know what Rody Duterte is like as a leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are four things that have and would define his leadership when he assumes office on June 30:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Hands-on. <\/strong>Numerous reports have circulated about Duterte\u2019s hands-on style of leadership. He has been seen as a cab driver in his own city of Davao<\/a> to know the situation of his city at night. He reportedly forced a tourist to swallow a cigarette butt at gunpoint<\/a>. The man is very hands-on in protecting his city and upholding the law. If the words of his spokesperson<\/a> are to be believed, he will be the same leader for our country.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Unconventional.<\/strong> The presumptive president\u2019s style of leadership is a mixed bag. He\u2019s hard yet soft at the same time. The way he moves his people is seen by some as unconventional, but preferred by others as it is more direct. He cares for women (Davao City Women\u2019s Development Code), children, and the members of the LGBT and indigenous communities (Anti-Discrimination Ordinance<\/a>). Yet we all know his stand against criminals, even going on record to say he will reinstate the death penalty<\/a> for heinous crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Decisive.<\/strong> Apart from his indecisiveness on whether or not he should run for president, the man dubbed by TIME Magazine as \u201cThe Punisher”<\/a> is probably the most decisive president we have had in the last 18 years. A lot of Davao City\u2019s projects were from his term as mayor. The most prominent, Davao City\u2019s Central 911, is seen as a classic example of his decisiveness as well as his political will. He reportedly threatened to blow up cell sites of top telcos Globe and Smart if they did not give him the phone number 911 for the city\u2019s emergency service.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Socialism.<\/strong> Duterte has openly declared that he is a socialist. He\u2019s called the adage \u201cthe rich get richer and the poor get poorer\u201d as clich\u00e9, citing no president has done anything concrete to close the gap between the rich and the poor. He openly supports the Communist Party of the Philippines\u2019 concerns, even going to such lengths as offering them cabinet posts<\/a>. He doesn\u2019t like the fact that government officials can afford so much when their people can afford so little, hence his eight-point economic agenda<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are just some of the traits he displayed in his interview with Rappler<\/a>. Will we see these traits manifest in his presidency? From what we have seen so far, he certainly will.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you think? Give us your thoughts on Duterte as a leader by leaving a comment below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/em> GMA News and Public Affairs YouTube account<\/em><\/a>, Inquirer.net, CNN Philippines, <\/em>Rappler<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>ABS-CBN News<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presidency is all but official. Four out of the five candidates have conceded to the now-presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte. When the votes for president are canvassed on May 25, none of that will matter because there\u2019s no one left to challenge Duterte. \u00a0 CHANGE IS COMING. These words echoed throughout his campaign, and now, he gets a crack at turning our country around. (Photo courtesy of Keith Kristoffer Bacongco via Wikimedia Commons). \u00a0 Most people have only seen the tough-talking Davao City Mayor from what he has shown in his sorties. Only the citizens of Davao City know what Rody Duterte is like as a leader. Here are four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/Rodrigo_Duterte_2009-e1463736548840.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}