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The 2016 presidential campaign of Rodrigo Duterte was announced on November 21, 2015.Rodrigo Duterte, who was then serving as Mayor of Davao City, had refused to run and turned down other presidential and vice-presidential aspirants' offers to be his running mate, including that of Jejomar Binay, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Bongbong Marcos.
Duterte won solid votes from Mindanao, Metro Manila, and Cebu during the 2016 presidential election. [15]Duterte, campaigning on a platform of fighting crime, corruption, and illegal drugs, [16] [17] [18] won the 2016 presidential election with 16,601,997 (39.02%) votes, defeating Liberal Party leader Mar Roxas by over 6.6 million votes.
Duterte's 2016 presidential campaign led to his election victory. During his presidency, his domestic policy focused on combating the illegal drug trade by initiating the controversial war on drugs, fighting crime and corruption, [13] [14] [15] and intensified efforts against terrorism and communist insurgency.
Duterte is the first Philippine president to have had "no reservations" in openly declaring his socialism while operating within a hostile political-economic environment. [ 9 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Some analysts have, in turn, stressed that Duterte's declaration should be seen as part of a populist political strategy rather than a statement of ...
Federalism was one of the main campaign promises of Rodrigo Duterte when he ran for President of the Philippines in 2016. His administration pursued a proposal which would shift the Philippines from being under a unitary form of government to a federal one. By 2021, efforts to introduce a federal form of government in the Philippines has halted.
In 2016, Duterte won the presidency by a wide margin on an anti-crime platform and de Lima was elected to the Senate and pursued an investigation into his campaign against illegal drugs ...
Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines with 38.5% of the vote. [2] Congress met in late May to canvass the results and issued an official result with Duterte and Leni Robredo emerging as the winners of the presidential and vice presidential races, respectively. They were proclaimed on May 30 in the House of Representatives.
President Donald Trump extended an invitation for the controversial leader to visit the White House. Trump suggested the two meet in person during their phone call on Monday about North Korea ...