Rodrigo Roa

Duterte
Administration
Background Information
Birth place: Maasin, Southern Leyte, Philippines
Birth date: March 28, 1945
Birth name: Rodrigo Roa Duterte
Father: Vicente Duterte, lawyer and politician
Mother: Soledad (Roa) Duterte, teacher
Marriage: Elizabeth Zimmerman (annulled in 2000)
Children: with Elizabeth Zimmerman: Paolo, Sebastian
and Sara; with Honeylet Avanceña: Veronica
Education: Lyceum of the Philippines University,
B.A.,1968; San Beda College, J.D.,1972
Religion: Roman Catholic
 Once compared himself to Adolf Hitler,
saying he would kill millions of drug
Other Facts
addicts

Cursed Pope Francis for traffic problems

caused by the pontiffs visit to the
Philippines
 Duterte’s father served as governor of the
Early life and
province of Davao, and his mother was a
mayor of Davao
community activist who had a prominent role in
City
the “people power” movement that deposed
the authoritarian president Ferdinand Marcos and
restored democratic rule to the Philippines.
Duterte earned a political science degree (1968)
from Lyceum of the Philippines University
in Manila and a law degree (1972) from San Beda
College.
 Early life and In 1977 he joined the Davao City prosecutor’s
mayor of Davao office, where he remained until he was appointed
City (1986) vice mayor of that city.

Duterte was elected mayor in 1988, and he was

reelected to that post twice over the subsequent
decade. Because of term-limit restrictions, he was
barred from seeking reelection in 1998, but he
successfully ran for a seat representing Davao in
the Philippines House of Representatives.
THE DUTERTE PRESIDENCY
On May 30,2016, the 16th Congress of the Philippines proclaimed
Duterte as the President-elect of the Philippines after he top the
official count by the Congress of the Philippines for 2016
presidential election with 16,601,997 votes, 6.6 million more than
his closest rival Mar Roxas.
On June 30, 2016, Duterte was inaugurated as president of
the Philippines. In his first six months in office, more than 6,000 people
were killed in Duterte’s “war on drugs.”
When Western governments expressed concern over the rampant
vigilantism, Duterte said that the West could offer the Philippines only
“double talk,” and he sought to strengthen ties with Russia and China.

The United States had suspended the sale of 26,000 assault rifle to the

Philippines as a result of the human rights abuses,
While Duterte was in Moscow, a series of deadly clashes erupted

in Marawi between Filipino troops and Islamist fighters linked to the Islamic

State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called ISIS). Duterte cut short his trip

and declared a state of martial law covering the entire island of Mindanao

War on Drugs
Duterte has pursued an "independent foreign policy", pursuing improved
relations with Russia and China, and lessening the country's dependence on
its traditional ally — the United States. He has adopted a more friendly stance
towards China compared to his predecessor and has set aside the previous
government policy of using the Philippines vs. China ruling to assert the
Philippines' claims over the South China Sea and its islands.
West Philippine
Sea
Duterte’s biggest Achievements

1. Tax reform, under Finance Secretary Sonny

Dominguez, which made the Philippines one of
the fastest-growing economies in Asia.
Duterte’s biggest Achievements
2. Build, Build, Build, under Department of Public
Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar
who raised infra spending to an average of 5.14
percent of GDP, from  Fidel Ramos 1.7 percent;
Joseph Estrada 1.62 percent; Gloria Arroyo 1.5
percent; and Benigno Aquino III  2.7 percent.
In the last five years alone, the DPWH under Villar
built 145,000 classrooms, 2,000 school buildings,
5,555 bridges, and 26,500 kms. of roads, access
roads, expressways, and tollways.
Duterte’s biggest Achievements
3. Transportation modernization under Department of Transportation Secretary
Art Tugade who made mass transportation safe, reliable, and available.  
Tugade increased RoRo shipping routes from 120 (servicing 223 ships and 2.8 million vehicles)
in 2016 to 181 by 2020. He targets additional 41 to service 325 ships and 4.8 million vehicles.

  Art completed more than 200 airport projects, 400 seaports, and 21 new lighthouses to reach 564
lighthouses. New airport terminals were built for Mactan, Clark, Ormoc, and Kalibo.  Bicol
Airport was restarted after an 11-year delay.  
Duterte’s biggest Achievements
3. Transportation modernization under Department of Transportation Secretary
Art Tugade who made mass transportation safe, reliable, and available.  
Night-rated airports increased from 14 in 2016 to 20 by June 2021.  

NAIA improved from being one of the worst airports in the world to being the most improved
by 2018.  The laglag-bala racket, where NAIA passengers were suddenly found to have bullets
in their luggage (an excuse for huge extortion) stopped completely.

Art has started building the impossible--a subway on EDSA.  

Duterte’s biggest Achievements
4. Free college education for all with 1.6 million enjoying it
by 2020, up 36 percent from 2019.
This law provides various financial assistance and
scholarships to student beneficiaries in state universities
and colleges and local universities and colleges (SUCs
and LUCs).
 Duterte’s biggest Achievements
5.  An independent foreign policy
6.  Duterte reduced red tape for the masses and made oligarchs
toe the line.
Now, the President faces the grim prospect of being tried before the International
Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity.  Our Supreme Court
has told Duterte to cooperate with the ICC.
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