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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Foul-mouthed' Duterte most popular politician in Philippines
Manila - Despite foul-mouthed tirades, international outrage and a public spat with Barack Obama, Rodrigo Duterte is the most popular politician in the Philippines.
As the politically incorrect president enters the third month of his six-year term, the Asian nation's slums are drenched in blood from a brutal anti-drug campaign that has seen police and shadowy assassins kill nearly 3,000 people.
But 71-year-old Duterte is riding high on record approval ratings, with the acid-tongued and irascible grandfather shrugging off repeated controversies including unprovoked and obscene attacks on the United Nations and the US president, whom he this week called a "son of a whore".
Critics said he was a dictator in the making, but 16 million people voted the former state prosecutor into office earlier this year, a landslide win fuelled by widespread disgust at conventional politicians in a raucous, corruption-ridden democracy.
"He is probably saying things ordinary people would not say because they are fearful or ashamed," political scientist Antonio Contreras told AFP.
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'Foul-mouthed' Duterte most popular politician in Philippines (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Sep 2016
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dembotoz
(16,806 posts)1. heard he was like trump in mouth, like bernie in policy
I don't think Bernie would ever encourage American citizens to take the law into their own hands and murder any drug dealers and users they come across.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. except that Bernie isn't in favor of legalizing murder nt
Me.
(35,454 posts)4. Wonder How Popular He’d Be If We Stopped Sending Foreign Aid?
There is such a thing as biting the hand that feeds you.
moondust
(19,984 posts)5. I've been wondering
if the drug problem there is really any worse than anywhere else or if it has just been hyped to the max by him and his cronies and media hacks to try to get him elected, similar to Benghazi.